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Rose Gardening Tips
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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Best Types of Roses to Grow
Deb said: “I like Knockout Carefree Roses. They are a small rose that can take our 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. B
ut 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 and Soil Needs
Carole said: “A florist at one of our Dillon’s stores told me a tablespoon of dry oatmeal in the soil feeds the plants iron and magnesium.”
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 can’t stand 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!”
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!”
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.”
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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…
Have a shrub rose that gave me a tiny new rose about 2 1/2 feet from parent plant . This rose bloomed same color as parent . Need to transplant. Too close to sidewalk. What size is best. And when?
Spring is a great time to transplant!!!!
i live in Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal,South Africa and, last year, grew roses (around 50)from rose cuttings gifted by friends around the country. Both soil and climate are condusive to rose-growing.We have full sun throughout the day, even in Winter. We do, however, have moles that root around and sometimes disturb plant roots, causing the roots to dry, which in turn encourages termites which attack the stem just above ground. How do I keep these pests away from my precious roses?
How do you care for potted rose bushes in Middlesex County, Nj. Mine never grow back after the crazy winters. I live in an apartment on the second floor. I grow my vegetables, herbs, and roses in big pots. I adore roses. I have to buy new ones each year. So sad. Help!
Hi NJ, I live in up state NY (Z4 frost pocket) I picked up a tip from a canadian nursery that works for me. Plant them with the graft 6″ below ground and cut them all the way back in winter. I have some reg HB tea varieties that have made it through 2 winters now.
Plant only roses that will grow in zone 3 and mulch well in the winter. If that doesn’t solve the problem try sub zero roses. They are cultvitated to grow in the coldest climates.
If you live in Zone 3 roses to plant for great success are Parkland Roses especially Morden roses.
Is it possible to grow a rosebush from cut roses (as in a gift from a florist)?
Yes you can grow roses from a fresh cutting and from a bouquet of roses. I am actually doing it now,try searching google videos and place (propergate roses from a bouquet) in the search engine. The videos were very informative.
Ofcourse I do that already for years. Now I have rosés from the florest in my garden and in the house!!
I have done it successfully but more times than not you will probably not get it to root but hey, if you have the flowers already, might as well try right? I have gotten them to root by cutting the ends at an angle and then planting in soil that drains well….I have read that it is better in sandy soil but I have not personally tried that…rooting hormone would have probably helped me to me more successful …had I known about it before but I didn’t so I just did it the old fashion way….try, try, and try again 😀 It did work from time to time though. Oh, there are those that also place the cutting into a potato to get it to root….personally have never tried that method either. As to things to add to the soil…along with the egg shells, banana peels, coffee grounds and so forth that everyone has mentioned, I have also opened up used tea bags and added the used tea leaves to the soil and ….although a bit smelly sometimes, they seem to love shrimp shells…I bury them all around the base of the rose bushes……you can also water them with used tea bags in the water…..guess they like to drink tea water. Have made natural bug deterrent by soaking onion cuttings, garlic pieces and a it of dish detergent….you just keep these in a jar soaking until you need them…..it is smelly but I guess the bugs think so as well.
Knock-out roses are profuse, and beautiful, but in my opinion, they are the Sirens of the garden. They are perhaps the thorniest rose around. They are really awful to prune in the spring- even with my leather gloves it’s agony!
Thanks for all the tips. Some of them I already do. I am always ready to learn more.
I know this is going to sound crazy but this summer my roses had tons of black spot,yellow leaves they just looked ugly and I love them .. So I had the men’s one a day vitamins and got one stuck it down by the root and wow! I was very surprised the spots were gone my roses were pretty again ..
I put the banana peels(cut up), coffee grounds, and epsom salts into my compost, along with grass clippings and other food waste. It doesn’t take long to make the most beautiful compost you ever saw! Then, I put the compost around the rose roots and they LOVE it! Also, before I mow my grass, I blow the leaves onto the grass, so when I mow I am also chopping the leaves up finely, and then I add it all to the compost. AND IT’S FREE!
Have learned quite a bit today, thanks!
Great site very informative and creative.