Best tips for growing Roses?
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Do not mulch with wood chips. Keep the earth bare around crown to avoid powdery mildew. Feed regularly with Epsom salts for glossy green leaves, and I also add used coffee grounds around the soil as an extra fertilizer. Roses are generally heavy feeders, so a fertilizer for roses is recommended, and consistent watering is important. Don’t let them go through a drought, as they will be stressed
https://www.bayeradvanced.com/articles/6-secrets-to-growing-roses
Knockout roses are pretty easy. Google and read about them.
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Heres three tips :
1-Provide air circulation
Considerations to implement to provide air circulation
*Plant appropriately away from structures and adjacent plants.
* Prune when dormant to open the shrub canopy.
*Encourage growth in open shape that allows air movement.
“ Roses need sunshine their diseases dont”
https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/sites/catalog/files/project/pdf/ec1520_0.pdf. Controlling diseases and aphids on your roses-P5p2
https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/sites/catalog/files/project/pdf/ec1520_0.pdf. Controlling diseases and aphids on your roses-P5p4
2-Avoid overhead watering, water in the early part of the day
“This allows wet leaves to dry and will reduce humidity.”
Considerations to implement to provide water in most effective way to prevent disease
*Low lying soil based irrigation efforts such as Soaker hoses, drip irrigation
https://extension.psu.edu/rose-rust-in-the-landscape
Rose Rust in the Landscape P1p4
“irrigate using drip irrigation or soaker hoses if possible.” Rust P1p4
https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/sites/catalog/files/project/pdf/ec1520_0.pdf
Controlling diseases and aphids on your roses-P5p8
“Avoid overhead watering especially during black spot season to keep from splashing the spores and wetting leaves.”
3-Practice good sanitation
Considerations to implement to provide good sanitation
*Removal and destruction of diseased plant parts.
*Pruning raking removal fallen leaves and dead flowers.
*Destroy - don't compost fallen or diseased material- send to landfill or burn.
*Continuous intervention-it's Ok-at any time -reassess and observe to remove diseased leaves, prune, rake away fallen foliage and debris.
https://extension.psu.edu/rose-rust-in-the-landscape
Rose Rust in the Landscape P1p4
“Sanitation and environmental management are important in preventing Rose Rust.”
https://njaes.rutgers.edu/pubs/download.php?strPubID=FS1158
Black spot of rose. Fact Sheet FS1158 P1p3
“Plants should be adequately maintained by proper pruning and disposal of dead material.”