Make your Rose Garden the best ever with some creative help from these Rose Gardening Tips for Beginners to Pros!
Would you like to grow your best Roses ever this year?? Check out these tried and true Rose Gardening Tips shared by your frugal friends… then get ready for your most beautiful blooms yet!
Thanks to these Rose Gardening Tips and Tricks, you’ll be gardening like a pro this year!
From purchasing roses to fertilizing and enhancing the soil, and watering to enhancing the color and scent of your roses, this complete rose care guide has got you covered!
So let’s get started! Here’s what you’ll do…
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Rose Gardening Tips
Best Types of Roses to Grow:
Deb said: “I like Knockout Carefree Roses. They are a small rose that can take our extreme Midwest winters.”
Jami said: “Grow easy roses! Not the needy English tea types. Try a Hardy Blaze climber. We also have the Fairy, no aroma but I’ve never done a thing to it except for the occasional prune and it’s great. Also, dig a really great hole when you plant, fill with lots of super rich Compost and maybe some rose fertilizer or the other things folks have listed here.”
When to Prune Roses:
When should I prune my roses? The exact time will vary, based upon your climate and where you live. But a general rule of thumb is to aim for just before your rose bushes break out of their Winter dormancy… so usually right after your last frost.
Lynda said: “Trim the bushes after the Spring’s final frost – maybe around mid March and they will bloom around May. Cut them back and prune again after blooming, and they will bloom again in the early part of Fall.”
Rose Watering Tips:
Sandi said: “Do not water from above.”
Cory said: “When watering, don’t get the leaves wet. They will get sunburned if wet in sunlight.”
Teresa said: “Water, combined with additives: iron, root stimulator, and miracle gro. Works like magic.”
Rose Fertilizer DIY Tricks:
Heather said: “Add used Coffee Grinds mixed in the soil… it works wonders!”
Sandi said: “I mix in used Coffee Grounds to the soil. It helps to make the color and scent more intense.”
Marlena said: “I throw my used coffee grounds in the flowerbed. I cant see them, it helps the plants, and the best part is… slugs hate the grainy feeling! Win Win!”
Vonna said: “Add epsom salt in the ground. It’s a tip from Martha Stewart!”
Deidre said: “Bury Banana Peels near the base of the rose bushes. They love them!”
Peggy said: “For roses, I save banana peelings-outside. When they are stiff I put them in my blender (works better that food processor) and grind them until they look like pepper. Spread them around the roses and cover lightly with soil. Roses LOVE banana peelings.”
Marti said: “You can also put banana peels without drying and grinding them, around base of your roses, mixed in or covered with dirt or compost and let them rot and decompose and they help the roses just as well.
I did chop the peels into pieces making them easier to mix in the dirt.”
Leslie said: “I have never had them before and the house we moved into this past Summer has 13 bushes. They were all getting tall and lanky so I took a chance and cut them all back and when I say cut… I really cut. They are now beautifully shaped nice and bushy and full of buds. I do give them the banana peels, I just bury them at the base.”
Loretta said: “Fertilize with horse manure!”
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Where to Buy Roses Cheap:
Emmie said: “Don’t buy roses from catalogues! They send you plants with roots exposed and no branches. I ordered 9 purple, but only 2 came out purple… they struggled a lot. Buy from plant stores in person… you’ll know what you’re getting. The coffee grounds tip works!”
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How to Keep Bugs Away From Roses:
Kimberly said: “I heard that Dish Soap Suds poured around roots keep the bugs away!”
Debby said: “Soapy water will kill earwigs.”
Rhonda said: “Earwig Trap: put rolled newspaper in your garden, earwigs love tight, dark spaces, then pick up the newspaper and toss it in a deep bucket of water to drown the earwigs.”
Bill writes: “My barn used to have thousands of earwigs. Reduce the population by pouring some beer or sweet drink on the grass near the structure and cover with any flat object, I use a small square of plywood around one square foot. Lift it up next day and get ready to do the earwig stomp.”
How to Protect Roses in Winter:
Lynda said: “Fireplace ashes work as a great winter fertilizer.”
And finally… Ellen said: “Buy some really fabulous fakes and plant in ground. Water if neighbors become suspicious.” 😉
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So have YOU ever grown roses before??
Share your favorite Rose Gardening Tips and Tricks in the comments below…
Rebecca Dillon says
Great tips! I’ll have to try these this spring.
Heidi says
So glad you liked the tips… have fun growing your roses this year!
Julio Campos says
I have planted a lot of roses for my wife unsuccessfully. After I planted them the blackspot almost kill them. What can I do to cure them and keep them healthy. Thanks
Linda says
These are all wonderful hints and will try them. I did try the egg shells crushed up that I’ve read before would help but soon found out that the chipmunks liked them and the roots as well. I definitely won’t do that again. Lost a few roses. Suggestions for the Mary chippies?
BJ Koch says
Hi Linda I don’t know if this is something you would like to try but I use my eggs shells BOILED in water and then cooled to room temp on my indoor plants and they LOVE it. It might work on your roses without serving the chipmunks.
Laura Gomez says
I live in Louisiana, can I cut my roses all the way down right now?
Marie says
Is it okay to cut of the buds after the petals falo off?
Rose APELES says
Live in Vancouver, Canada and have a couple of tree roses (topiary). Am worried that leaves are turning yellow with black dots. I also noticed new baby shoots are growing from the ground. I need help as I don’t want them to die. Thanks for all posts, I will try all of them, but what do I do with the baby shoots growing? Pls and tnx.