My little rose garden

[quote="chimneyrosegarden, post: 617472, member: 11379"
crgs rose care list

• get rid of the bark - don't stick bark or fresh manure anywhere near the roses
• soak bare root rose
• double dig THE BORDER AND DIG a hole
• mix some planting mixture 1part peat 1 part soil and a and A HANDFULL of bonemeal per wheelbarrow full.
• put some at the bottom of the hole
• hold the rose over the hole and sprinkle on Mycorrhizal fungi
• lay the rose roots like woos pic shows.
• back fill with planting mixture with union 2-3 cm below soil level and make sure soil is firm
• feed with a granular feed in march and again in mid to late june
  put the feed on first then the mulch (well rotted manure) in a circle around the crown
• mulch again in autumn
• use my rose clear in spring and then every 14 days at the very most if roses are very sick. nicking the idea of spraying on the 1st and 15th of the month rather than trying to count 14 days
• dont plant them too close together
• keep my secaturs clean with baby wipes in-between plants
• deadhead as required
• prune in mid march using the easy care method - cutting rose to half its height
• dont plant a rose anywhere where one has been before
• give them regular long watering by the roots add uncle toms rose tonic if u like

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Note to self - reminder

 

Are you still worrying about the above CRG? It looks okay to me apart from the fifth one down. Don't put fertiliser in the bottom of the hole, it will burn the roots if they are in direct contact with it apparently.

 

no no i am just reminding myself i will edit title

 

I should think with the amount of roses you've planted recently you should know the above back to front.

I think we're all champing at the bit now, waiting for the roses to start stirring in the garden. It seems ages still, until we see them in bloom.

 

take your point about the boanmeal and not going to use easycare method of pruning either

 

its the prune feed mulch bit i had forgotten the timing of i thaught it was feb not march.

 

Plants of any kind aren't usually fed until they are active, I would leave feeding until March.

 

Did 10 mins today. Mainly getting the roses strulch free. My peace rose which is early ninties at the latest so an old boy is looking much better today. out of my two poorley roses great north eastern which i thaught would have pulled through is dead as a doornail but gold rush made it so mixed sucess :
all my cuttings have also succomed :(
I am going to try and take some more in late march when i do the pruning i have no idea if this will work??!

 

i have a rose called yorkminster. the stems i have deadheadded have a big juicy bud. the stems that i have not deadheaded have no bud why please

 

will they come after i prune?

 

thanx woo. so what do i do with the stems that dont have any buds? i thaught i had to prune to a bud? i stopped deadheading mid nov

 

thanl you so much woo. i was planning to prune feed and mulch in march. i have read your pruning sheet. i dont know why i am so dippy at times-lol