Okay, I was an Idiot. Now, how best to save these roses?
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Comments (155)Hello! I just got my rose bush from one of those ship to your door flower delivery companies for my Birthday. I have read a lot of the comments and see that there is little chance these guys surviving, I still want to try as it was a gift! The pot it came in was pretty small and all the buds were dying and some of the leaves too, so I decided to repot it. With some advise from the internet I repotted it the best I could. Now i feel like it’s dying in earnest. I think I’ve been over watering it so I will hold off until it dries now, but I’m wondering if there is anything else I can do? I have a northerly facing apartment that gets sun for only a couple of hours in the morning. I took it out today and basically set it in the stairwell where the sun was setting to get more sun for the day. The leaves are mostly wilting and dying with a few spare yellow leaves here and there. Also there are some of the stems that have turned brown and seem very hard. Should I be trimming those back? I trimmed all of the dead leaves but I’m not sure if the stems are supposed to be turning brown like this? Pictures are below! Thanks for all of your help!...See MoreOkay, now I am worrying too much!
Comments (22)In this 4Â X 3Â X 2Â box there are a gazillion mites. There is not enough melon or bread in NC to bribe, lure or entice these stupid mites out of that box. Sometimes I stare at the surface of the compost because it looks like something alive. It moves with a sparkly, shimmery reddish tint that is like performance art. Just under the surface, the BSFLs and the EFs are busily doing their thing. This activity causes the surface to ripple and pulse. And the mites are always on the move in a chaotic traffic jam of microscopic proportions. Why do they travel, what could they hope to gain in a box of crap? Is there some positional advantage to be achieved? These are not just surface dwellers. If I turn over material in any place in the box, there are mites. Each individual mite is different from the bazillion other mites, but all are the same. All these mites are randomly careening around without a clue where they are or where they are going. These guys live here. A megabagazillion mites, several hundred of BSFLs and about 10 lbs of EFs apparently get along well enough to share a box in the garage. I add cardboard, cow manure and table scraps and I pay the light bill. I also get to watch this other world sometimes....See MoreHow can I save this rose?
Comments (4)For now just take a sharp scissors and cut them down to the soil at the base of the rose. This winter, after your rose goes dormant, it may not be until January, dig up the rose and separate the roots of the weeds from the roses roots and then replace your rose in the soil. By keeping the thugs cut back to soil level you prevent them from setting seeds that will grow new weeds under your rose and also from mugging your nice plant. After replanting, mulch deeply and water well to settle the soil back around the roots. I have a lot of these cruddy bind weeds and they actually come from a root leader that travels underground about 8-10' deep. If you have one of those you may need to dig out the whole leader. They are very brittle and will break off if you try to just pull them out. I have zillions of them in my yard and I spend a significant amount of time digging and pulling them. I tried painting roundup on one of them once to see if it would kill just the bindweed, and it worked, but it also killed a nearby rose. Waa. So be very careful if you try using a systemic weed killer. Cheryl...See MoreI think I'm an idiot.
Comments (9)Sounds like you have an oil boiler with a domestic hot water coil. This type of system dates back many years and has been losing popularity with rising energy costs. You see the boiler must maintain a minimum temp in order to heat the water sufficiently for usage. Somewhere along the way someone decided that it was idiotic to keep the big boiler going when no heat was required just for domestic hot water, thus the extra water heater was added. There are plenty arguments that during heating season the domestic hot water is free, since the boiler is already firing. Well it definitely weighs into the calculations however many have a good argument that a properly sized boiler with an indirect water heater heating year round is better. Since boilers with domestic hot water coils require quality water to keep from liming, they tend to not last long. In addition the output tends to be limited and vary in output temp....See More- 7 years ago
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