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I read yesterday how important it is to frequently sterilise secateurs/pruning knife when pruning roses.

My roses have terrible blackspot, it is rife hereabouts: the council's roses in the park surrounding me are covered in blackspot.

In times past, maybe I would occasionally sterilise secateurs at start or finish of using them: it is not particularly easy to do so whilst using them in the garden.

So, I have decided to wipe them with the hand sanitising gel which we got used to using in the Covid outbreaks. That I can do without major disruption to the work in hand. Just hope it will be effective.