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Maintaining Your Roses
While it is true that you will spend more time on rose
maintenance than most other plants, the care you give them
during the growing season can be done easily while simply
enjoying the blooms. Many people choose not to grow roses
because they believe that they entail too much work.
Following these simple steps will make your roses beautiful and
keep the plants healthy.
Fertilize your plants every three weeks during active blooming
with a complete fertilizer formulated for roses. Roses need a
balanced diet, as do most plants. You will want to choose
fertilizer with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. This is
often made easier by simply choosing one of the many brands of
rose food available at any home and garden center.
Watch closely for pests and diseases and react quickly to
destroy them. Black-spot, mildew, and blight together with
insects, such as Japanese beetles, are some of the more
troublesome rose disease and insect problems. Control is easy
and prevention is practical with the regular use of chemicals
that controls most fungal diseases and detrimental insects. Use
pesticides labeled for roses as needed and weekly fungicide
applications to control powdery mildew and black spot. Always
apply according to label directions.
If you do not care to use pesticides on your plants there are
organic methods for dealing with many insects. Pesticides do not
differentiate between the good bugs and the bad ones and you do
not want to kill beneficial insects. There are organic soaps
available for purchase that will deal with most insects. You can
also purchase beneficial insects at your local nursery like the
praying mantis or lady bugs.
Roses require about an inch of water per week per bush. Watering
bushes during dry periods will ensure continuous flowering
during the growing season. Drip irrigation is best to water
slowly, thoroughly, and deeply without wetting foliage.
This can be accomplished by purchasing soaker hoses. These hoses
are snaked through your
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rose bed, preferably under the mulch to
hide the hose, and attached to a regular hose when watering.
This way watering is a simply matter of just turning on the
spigot once a week. Keep the plants mulched with pine needles or
bark to conserve water, cool the soil and discourage weeds.
Remove spent blooms to keep plants blooming and encourage new
growth. Cut flowers regularly to enjoy inside as well. Practice
disbudding to encourage the growth of larger blooms. Disbudding
is the early removal of bloom buds. This practice removes the
competition for nutrients to the buds that remain.
On Hybrid Tea roses, you will see that the terminal bud is the
first to form. This is the bud on the very tip of the stem.
Shortly after, secondary buds are formed around the terminal
bud. Removal of these secondary buds early on sends the rose's
energy to the terminal bud producing the larger bloom.
The removal of these secondary buds should be done early in
their development. You simply pinch them off with your fingers.
When walking through your rose garden, look for any diseased
canes, dead wood, and/or suckers. Cut these away anytime they
occur, but do not prune severely in the summer.
Finally, pull out any weeds as soon as you see them. Once
different weeds get established in your garden, they can be
difficult to control. I would advise to never use any type of
weed killer - regardless of what the commercials may say -
around your roses.
The roots are very close to the surface and even the most
careful application can result in the death of half of your
favorite bush. It is an avoidable nightmare.
About the author:
Julia Robertson is a writer and author of two books on
gardening, "Growing and Enjoying Roses" and "American Gardener".
Julia's website is jam-packed with gardening tips, tricks, and
techniques. Discover how you can make your neighbors think you
were born with a green thumb! ==> http://www.acorn-trader.com ©
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