Caring for roses after winter
Most people who have their own garden arehe flower garden. And, of course, you can not do without great roses. After all, these flowers have so many fans. However, they need proper care. After hibernation, you need to remove the shelter from the flowers, cut and add fertilizing. Because many will be interested to know how to carry out care for roses after winter.
When to open roses after winter and how to cut them?
As soon as the snow cover comes down, it should beto make small holes in the available shelters of rose bushes. This will not allow the development of the friction and contribute to natural ventilation. In the evening and heavy clouds, roses can be opened, and the shelter can be completely removed only after a stable daily temperature and no night frost threat. After that, it is necessary to trim the plant.
First of all, you need to start with those shoots,which during the wintering season were frozen and browned. Cut 2-3 cm below the edge of the damaged branch. Remove sick, damaged, moldy and decayed shoots. If the bushes are not observed, then make an ordinary thinning. Carrying out the roses after the winter, the repairing varieties should leave 6 shoots, they have from 5 to 8 buds, in the case of old shrubs - up to 10 shoots. In climbing varieties, cut off shoots to a strong external kidney, and leave 4-5 kidneys in tea-hybrid roses.
Trimming is done before the moment of blossomingkidneys, while new bushes are cut to the maximum - to grow strong shoots in the lower part of the bush, which will make it more magnificent. In adult bushes of park and climbing roses, old shoots and partially young ones are completely removed. In other cases, after removing the painful parts of the plant, all available branches are shortened by half, leaving a minimum of 5 mm of shoot above the last kidney.
Caring for roses after winter
Do not forget that after removing the sheltercollect and destroy all the leaves and branches under the rose bushes. After all, this is an excellent breeding ground for spores and pests, chosen by them for wintering. Also, in order to prevent the kidneys from swelling, it is worthwhile to spray the plant and the surrounding soil with a solution of copper sulfate (2%) or Bordeaux liquid (3%). Or you can use specialized solutions: Azofos, Oxihom, Topsin, Fundazol, etc. This will scare away from the bushes of pathogens of gray rot, rust, powdery mildew. Spraying is best done a few days after the clipping of the bush.
Spring time is different process of reinforcedgrowth, and therefore the rose needs to be fed. It is best if a combination of organic and mineral fertilizers is chosen for this purpose. You can also use complex fertilizers, with the content of ammonium nitrate or nitrogen. A week later, fertilize the infusion of chicken litter (1:20). In rainy autumn, the application of nitrogen fertilizing should be repeated after 14 days, as an alternative, it is possible to loosen the surrounding soil together with scattered humus (half a bucket under a bush).
Caring for roses after winter, it is worthpay attention to the fact that in the case of dry soil after fertilizing should be abundantly watered flowers. And do not forget as often as possible to loosen the ground under the plant - this will help to prevent the possibility of moisture stagnation. Many other tips you can see in the video, which step by step tells about how to care for roses:
Follow these tips, and roses after winterwill come to life, gain strength and will please you throughout the summer and autumn with their beautiful flowers. But every gardener always wants to enjoy such beauty long warm evenings.
