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Your plans for roses in ground and pots: soil prep & fertilizing?
Comments (105)anna, lavenderlace, aztcqn: There is something weird with this site due to which the posts do not show up in time. Most weird thing is that if I make a post from a new device (a new loptop, mobile phone etc), it is not visible even to me when I login from a different device. I can only see my own posts, immediately after posting, if I log on from the same machine..... I haven't understood how this happens. Feeding during monsoon has been a problem for me since past few years and I have tried different models. Since I wanted to be 100% organic, most solutions that I tried didn't work that well and my roses would stand exhausted and depleted by the end of monsoon. This year, I fed them after the monsoon in August and September with a doze that comprised 1 tea spoon each of Potash, gypsum, a water soluble 36-0-12 nitrogen fertilizer and a trace element supplement that contained Fe, Zn, Cu, Mn, Co and Mb mixed in 18 liters of water (capacity of the bucket). This had a good effect on the roses in pots that you can see in my threads of that time. There is also lot of discussion about the pros and cons of various methods... Fall Roses in Islamabad......zone 9b, October Roses.........zone 9b & September Roses, zone 9b Islamabad best regards...See Morenewbie at using soil-less potting soil - roses
Comments (20)TraCami - that is so funny!!! (I don't mean this in a mean way) :) I'm in zone 3...we still have snow everywhere. :) My roses are sleeping in the garage. So I have no idea how the soil is doing. :) It still hasn't arrived here. I would love to hear though how the mix is going for you. Please keep me updated. :) a1an - Yes, I overwinter my roses in the garage. It's quite easy. :) Which roses are you thinking about...and what zone are you in? Carol...See MoreScrewed Up And Ordered The Wrong Soil For My Potted Roses-Any Advice?
Comments (8)gardengal48 and Perma n’ Posies , Thank you so much! I feel so much better now! I'm glad you told me about the vermiculite because I am not an expert gardener in any shape or form. When I bought it, I heard vermiculite was good for airing out and lightening up the soil and for helping the soil hold onto the added nutrients and soil amendments. I figured it would help potted plants so that the added plant food and nutrients don't drain out of the pots and can stay in the pot longer so the plants can uptake those things more readily when needed. I read so many different things on the internet about different kinds of soil amendments that it confuses the heck out of me sometimes, lol. I have bone meal, blood meal, earthworm castings, Down to Earth Organic Rose & Flower Fertilizer Mix 4-8-4, 5 , garden lime and something called Tank's Green Stuff 100% Organic SuperMix Fertilizer which is very expensive and gets rave reviews from gardeners. I really like the ingredients in Tanks Green Stuff! Tank's 100% organic compost has: Heat Treated Chicken Manure, Bat Guano, Calcium, Zeolite, Gypsum, Biochar, Soy Meal, Feather Meal, Blood Meal, Kelp Meal, Trace Minerals, Seaweed Extract, Humic Acid, Worm Castings. ( N: 2 P: 2 K: 1 ) If the soil mix is heavy and not light and fluffy, I'll add some peat moss and perlite in to lighten it up a bit. Besides the peat moss and perlite, Is it ok to mix a little of the stuff I mentioned above in the soil too? If yes, how many cups or teaspoons should I mix into the soil and add to each 15 gallon pot? I want the soil in the pots to be light and fluffy and filled with lots of good stuff for the roses. I found the ingredients that the soil has: aged fir bark, fir bark, sawdust, composted green waste, peat moss, redwood sawdust, alfalfa meal, fishbone meal, bone meal, feather meal, kelp meal, kelp flour, dolomite lime, gypsum and wetting agent. My guess is that there isn't a huge percentage of those ingredients in the soil. It's probably mostly sticks/wood. Thankfully, I also found a write up where the company said this particular planting mix is also "designed for Indoor and outdoor containers". After I read that I felt relieved. Thanks so much again for your help and advice. I appreciate you both so much!...See MoreBest own root roses for your type of soil and annual rainfall?
Comments (60)lizzieswellness I have been growing roses for 30 years (I'm 60) and I have been rooting roses for a decade. I grow 150+ varieties of OWN ROOT roses. What you wrote fit GRAFTED roses that are grafted on ONE PARTICULAR ROOTSTOCK, but DOES NOT APPLY to own-root roses which are vastly different from each other. Like Bayes Blueberry is a long rope root, or shallow cluster-root of Baby Fauraux, or thick & woody & chunky root (like a tree) of French Romantica roses. I dug up plenty of dead own-root roses that don't survive my zone 5a winter at -20 F below zero. And their roots are DIFFERENT from each other, just google "StrawChicago and HMF" and you'll see I posted plenty of pics. of roots of roses: Even grafted roses are different from each other (Fortuniana, Multiflora, Dr.Huey). Below is multiflora rootstock (pic. from internet): Below is Dr.Huey rootstock, dug up from my garden of rock hard clay: Below is a pic. of own root rose that a friend sent to me. NO WAY that such a tiny own root can handle rock hard clay. One size DOES NOT fit all when it comes to own-root roses....See Morestrawchicago z5
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