Fertilizing roses for the year
Anthony Wutz
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Comments (48)I have noticed that the Vintage bands have a gravelly like composition to the bands when they arrive. Wonder if that could be the shale Lou is talking about? I have found that intead of rushing to pot the bands up in one gallon pots the minute they arrive, they seem to do better if I let them climitize about a week. I keep them out of them wind and protected from cold weather, put them on wire shelves in dappled sunlight. The ones I got from Rogue Valley are now just bursting out of their bands, ready to be potted [tomorrow]. Our weather is in the 50's at night, it got up to 81 today. I am seeing lots of new growth on the bands, but they are still looking like babies at this point - unlike the ones I got in November - those are getting really big, a few have buds [as do a couple of these newest bands - [by the way - I call them 'bands' even tho they are repotted into larger containers] This is why I want to be so careful in what I give them - do not even want to chance burning their young roots. And I definitely water well the day before fertilizing. I have several that are quite slow - still look like sticks with new leaves - I am really going to be careful with those.......not even sure if these should be fertilized or not?? Judith...See MoreAnyone else really behind in chores this year?
Comments (22)Excerpt from my most recent list (some items have been sitting there for the past couple of months)...  Sow morning glories (NOTE: grow some I. quamoclit over rose arch in red border)  Move paeony to Wildflower.  Pot on Dahlia seedlings & harden off  Pot on the olive tree. Sand, topsoil, compost, perlite?  Check on compost bin!  VEG!!!  MOVE Arundo donax from Hot border to white border.  Put Dahlia ÂFire&Ice in one huge pot, place on slab in white border sludge.  Plant out... - Dodecatheon: patio - Tricyrtis lasiocarpa: left-hand patio Tricyrtis patch - Bergenia 'Eroica': Dog Wood, yellow/pink - Kniphofia ÂVanillaÂ: WF border - Candelabra primulas - patio? pond area when dug? - Ensete ÂMaurellii: red/black border. - Canna ÂAustraliaÂ: red/black border - Hedychium (dug from L border): hot border when good root growth - Hedychium forrestii: white border (likes damp soil) - Fargesia murielae ÂJumboÂ: patio border to help screen pink apartments  Check on perennial seedlings. Pot on/plant out.  Separate DelÂs cuttings and give one back to her.  Pot on Rosa moyesii (and other rose seedling). Consider giving it to M&D (to 10ft!). Dig up and pot on the rose seedlings in the Dahlia patch. Behind with the chores? Desperation creeping in? Garden taking over my life, and that of my poor boyfriend? It certainly looks that way. It would also appear that I am much better at making lists than at actually doing any gardening! But hey, perhaps I'll actually get something done this weekend....See MoreGranular vs. liquid fertilizer for first-year roses/deadheading
Comments (7)Liquid fertilizers are composed of fast-acting synthetics. Miracle Gro and Vigoro are common examples. The advantage of using them is they give you almost complete control over the amount of nutrients present in the soil at any given time. The disadvantage is that you may not know the best way to utilize that control. Granular fertilizers come in two major types: timed-release and organic. Timed release fertilizers contain coated synthetic nutrients which are automatically released over time in the soil. Osmocote is perhaps the best known example. Of all fertilizers, timed-release fertilizers add the least total amount of nutrients to the soil over a season. The advantage of these is they're the least work and require the least thought. If you buy one intended for roses and you follow the label directions, it's probably very unlikely that you will over-fertilize. There is a tendency to worry about under-fertilizing but I try to stifle such thoughts. Organic fertilizers, such as Rose Tone and Dr. Earth, contain organic sources of nutrients. As a rule, these tend to add the greatest total amount of nutrients over a season. These are usually described as very slow-release and hence safe for any rose. Still, some of them contain at least some fast-acting synthetics. Rose Tone, for example, gets most of its nitrogen from ammonium sulfate and Dr. Earth contains potassium sulfate. I would say that organic fertilizers offer the least control over the amount of available nutrients present at any given time in the soil. They do increase the organic content of the soil but organic composts or mulches do the same thing at far less cost. Jeff, I realize none of the above directly answers your question, but I don't think there is any one best answer. I never deadhead any of my roses down to a five leaf set and I certainly wouldn't do so with first year roses....See MoreFertilizing roses with organic fertilizer
Comments (9)Marlene, ideally I fertilize my roses organically with an organic rose fertilizer (three times a year) and alfalfa meal (2 times a year), since my soil seems to be very poor in terms of nutrients and I have the impression that they leach out quickly, too. I have read, that it is recommended to remove the mulch and put it back after you have applied the fertilizer and scratched it into the soil, but I have never done that. It is just too much of an effort for me. I just scatter the fertilizer around the rose on top of the mulch, scratch it into the mulch, and water it in very well. It seems to work just fine for me. I definitively know what you are talking about regarding that it is sometimes a pain to scratch the fertilizer into the soil and crawl around underneath the rose, to get it close to the center of the root ball, even though I only scratch it into the mulch :-). For that reason I have fertilized some of my roses just once this year! After reading about other people experiences here, I may try to only water the fertilizer in and that's it. I assume, that it might take the fertilizer a little bit longer to act, but that is better than to fertilize my roses not often enough, because it's just too exhausting....See Morevesfl (zone 5b/6a, Western NY)
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