Despite the fact that most people love roses and grow them in their suburban plots, many of the flower growers do not know how to care for roses throughout the year. There are a number of necessary procedures and manipulations that must be performed in your rose garden.
How to care for roses in winter? Before the snow falls, poison for the mice is laid around the bushes . After snowfall, it is advisable to cover them with additional bushes, raking small snowdrifts on them. Such a shelter will protect roses from freezing. In the last month of winter and in the beginning of spring, snow should be periodically tamped around the bushes to prevent the movement of mice, which, due to lack of feed, very often climb under shelters of roses and gnaw the tender bark of the plant.
How to care for roses in spring? Spring is a planting period of almost all types and varieties of roses. The soil under the bushes is prepared in advance, namely in the fall. If you can’t prepare the soil in the fall, you can do it at least a month before planting roses. To prepare the soil, dig a 50x60 cm planting pit (for a single planting) or dig the entire surface of the flower bed (for group planting). The upper fertile layer on the bayonet shovel is removed and set aside. Next, dig the soil (on the bayonet of a shovel). On 1sq.m 300 g of lime, 400 g of superphosphate, 400 g of bone meal, 200 g of ash, 40 g of magnesia are added to the lower layer of the earth. All components are thoroughly mixed with the ground. The topsoil is poured into prepared pits.
In April, you can gradually open shelters of bushes for a day. Better to leave them at night. With a significant increase in temperature, shelters are removed completely. To protect roses from spring night frosts, you can leave shelters from light materials or lapnik on them. They also protect the bushes from severe sunburn.
Exempt roses from the shelter (before budding) process Bordeaux liquid (3%). To process a bucket of water, take 300 g of quicklime and copper sulphate. Such treatment will prevent the development of fungal diseases.
Caring for roses in the spring also consists in pruning them. In April, pruning roses (spring). It is necessary as sanitization, in which broken and blackened shoots are cut off. They are cut to a strong living kidney. When pruning, it is worth observing the proportions to form beautiful and symmetrical bushes. Slices of shoots are treated with garden var.
In May, you can start planting roses. Before planting seedlings, damaged shoots, roots and buds are removed from them. The shoots are cut to 10-15 cm, leaving 3-4 kidneys on them. Dry roots of seedlings are pre-soaked for a day in water. Before planting, the roots of roses are dipped in a mash of clay and manure. Planting pits are filled with fertile soil in the form of a knoll. A seedling is placed on it, spreading the roots. The vaccine should be 3-5 cm below the ground. The seedling is covered with earth, the soil is compacted and watered. Bushes spud. Planted roses should be regularly watered, and it is better to mulch the soil around the bushes.
How to care for roses in the summer? Leaving consists in regular watering, top dressing, loosening of the soil, weeding. Mulch washed off by rains needs to be updated regularly. At least 1 bucket of water should be poured onto 1 bush once a week. Before the mass flowering of roses, top dressing with cow manure infusion or complex fertilizers is carried out. When various pests and diseases appear, it is necessary to deal with them with appropriate drugs in a timely manner. After the buds bloom, do not forget to remove them, as this stimulates the appearance of new ones.
In summer, cuttings are also carried by shoots. To do this, cut green shoots of roses are stuck in the ground and covered with a jar. Water the shoots as the soil dries, preventing its overdrying. In July, preventive spraying with preparations containing copper is carried out. At the end of summer, watering is reduced. In August, fertilizing with phosphorus-potash fertilizers is carried out. Young long shoots are cut off. Rooted cuttings are transplanted into pots or left under cover in the open ground.
How to care for roses in the fall? In climbing roses, faded shoots are cut off. Watering stops. The main care is loosening the soil and weeding. In September, a dry mixture is prepared (sand with earth, with peat) for hilling bushes for the winter. During night frosts, rose bushes are sprinkled with a dry mixture (height 15-20 cm).
Caring for roses in the fall also consists in preparing for the winter. To do this, pruning bushes and spraying with a Bordeaux mixture (1%). Before shelter, roses are removed from the roses. With the intensification of frosts (up to -8 ° ), permanent shelters for the winter are made over rose bushes (from sawdust, lapnik, cardboard, glassine, hydro thermal insulation paper and film).