When should I prune my roses in Milwaukee, WI
nickjoseph Milwaukee, WI
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Comments (2)Welcome! Roses will usually continue to bloom until it gets too cold for them to or they don't get enough sunlight to produce any more buds. That's dormancy. Pruning is usually done right before the roses begin to grow again, usually late winter/very early spring. Depending on your area, you probably can prune anytime between now and late February. I couldn't find anything on gardening zones in Iran, but if your roses are blooming now, I would guess that you are in an area where roses don't really go dormant. In that case you can prune now (and take all the blooms inside as the previous poster suggested). If you don't prune, your roses can get tall and lanky and only bloom on the top....See MoreWhen should I prune my Easy Does It and Strike It Rich roses? Zone 7b
Comments (5)Do you have pear trees or those pink weeping cherries? Those are blooming here now, too. And other orchard trees like peaches and apricots. I usually just prune out the discolored canes from winter, back until the canes are nice and green. Then prune out any canes that will cross too closely to another one (unless it's a small plant that needs all the canes and leaves it can get). You can take some height off of most modern roses if you like (or leave them tall), but if the rose only blooms once a year wait until after it blooms to do that. Some of the good canes may not actually be a great green. I have some that get kind of purple in the winter. That's fine. And some old canes can look kind of dead when they are just woody, so look for live buds pushing leaves if it's a particularly woody rose bush. Then you do have to cut off canes that have bad, cankered spots in them. You have to cut those off below the cankered area. Those are usually pretty obvious, I think (or I don't worry about the small ones). I hate to have to cut off long canes for that, but if you have a big bad spot on any cane, the cane will have to come off sometime. The canker can spread/creep down and up the cane, so go on and take care of that before the rose wastes all kinds of energy on the cane. Sterilize your pruners between cuts when dealing with canker....See MoreSad, sad, sad rose bushes this season in Milwaukee, WI
Comments (15)This is the time to work on your soil. Add compost, manure and good mulch. Keep the roots in good shape. Roses always do better with rain than hose water. You should see what the drought is doing to my roses in CA. The year it rained and rained was my best year ever. But roses want sun and warmth too. If you have been using chemical fertilizers instead of natural ones then you might want to give your soil some TLC while the roses take a break....See MoreRoundup damage to large roses: should I prune? Can I add more roses?
Comments (13)I think there is some bacteria that will help get rid of the chemical they will absorb it and others will eat them. The ameoba and parameciams and protozoa that we learned about in 9th grade. Eventually the microbes will ameliorate. I like that word ameliorate the soil. It's your garden. Put what you want there. Maybe if you take some good soil from a place that you know grows good plants and sprinkle it on top it will rain down the good microbes. Maybe some good Organic fertilizers at the plant nursery will be good to sprinkle and make the soil good again. Don't they have something called starter fertilizers? To get the good things going again? I think rain eventually takes it away and it dissapates in the air and water and water vapor and the microbes....See Morenickjoseph Milwaukee, WI
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