Sterilized Pruning Tools: Nuisance or Necessity?
The Center for Landscape and Urban Horticulture has an
online publication on Pruning that recommends "If diseased plants are pruned, disinfect pruning equipment after each cut to prevent spreading disease. Denatured alcohol or a chlorine bleach solution can be used to do this."
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