Despite the fact that most people adoreroses and grows them in their dacha homesteads, many of the florists do not know how to care for roses throughout the year. There are a number of necessary procedures and manipulations that must be performed in your rosary.
How to care for roses in winter?Before falling out of the snow around the bushes lay out the poison for the mice. After the fall of snow, it is advisable to cover them with bushes in addition, heating them with small snowdrifts. Such a shelter will save roses from freezing. In the last month of winter and early spring, snow should be periodically rammed around the bushes to impede the movement of mice, which, in view of the lack of feed, very often climb under the cover of roses and gnaw the delicate bark of the plant.
How to care for roses in the spring?Spring - the period of planting almost all types and varieties of roses. The soil under the bushes is prepared in advance, namely in autumn. If you can not prepare the soil in the fall, you can do it not less than a month before the planting of roses. To prepare the soil, you need to excavate the pit of 50x60 cm (for a single planting) or to dig through the whole surface of the flowerbed (in a group planting). The upper fertile layer on the spade bayonet is removed and laid aside. Then the soil is dug (on the spade bayonet). At 1kv.m. the bottom layer of the earth is added 300 g of lime, 400 g of superphosphate, 400 g of bone meal, 200 g of ash, 40 g of magnesia. All components are thoroughly mixed with the ground. The top layer of soil is covered in prepared pits.
In April, you can gradually open sheltersbushes a day. At night it is better to leave them. With a significant increase in temperature, the shelters are completely removed. To protect the roses from spring nocturnal frosts, they can be sheltered from light materials or lapnika. They will protect the bushes and from severe sunburn.
Released from the shelter of the rose (before blossomingkidneys) treat with Bordeaux fluid (3%). For processing on a bucket of water take 300 grams of quicklime and copper sulfate. This treatment will prevent the development of fungal diseases.
Caring for roses in the spring is and in their pruning.In April, pruning roses (spring). It is necessary as a sanitization, in which the broken and blackened shoots are cut off. They are circumcised to a strong live kidney. When pruning it is necessary to observe the proportions for the formation of beautiful and symmetrical shrubs. Sections of shoots are treated with garden sauce.
In May, you can start planting roses.Before planting seedlings, they remove damaged shoots, roots and kidneys from them. The shoots are cut to 10-15 cm, leaving 3-4 buds on them. Dry roots of seedlings are pre-soaked for a day in water. Before planting, the roots of roses are dipped in a clay of mud and manure. Landing holes are filled with fertile soil in the form of a mound. It has a seedling, spreading its roots. The inoculation should be below the ground level by 3-5 cm. The seedling is covered with soil, the soil is compacted and watered. Bushes hill. Planted roses should be watered regularly, and the ground around the bushes should be better covered.
How to care for roses in the summer?Care consists of regular watering, fertilizing, loosening the soil, weeding. Mulch washed by the rain should be regularly updated. For 1 bush, once a week, you must pour at least 2 buckets of water. Before mass flowering of roses, top-dressing is carried out with infusion of cow dung or complex fertilizers. When various pests and diseases appear, appropriate drugs should be treated in a timely manner. After bud blooming, do not forget to remove them, as this stimulates the appearance of new ones.
In the summer, cuttings are cuttings.To do this, cropped green shoots of roses are stuck into the ground and covered with a jar. Water the shoots as the soil dries up, not allowing it to dry out. In July, preventive spraying with preparations containing copper is carried out. At the end of summer, watering is reduced. In August, fertilizing with phosphorus-potassium fertilizers is carried out. Young long shoots are cropped. Rooted cuttings are transplanted into pots or left under cover in open ground.
How to care for roses in the fall?In whipped roses, faded shoots are cut off. Watering stops. The main care - loosening the soil and weeding. In September a dry mix is prepared (sand with earth, with peat) for hilling bushes for the winter. During night frosts, rose bushes are hilled with a dry mixture (height 15-20 cm).
Caring for roses in autumn is also in preparationfor the winter. For this, pruning is done and sprayed with Bordeaux mixture (1%). Before the cover from the roses, leaves are removed. With increasing frost (up to -8 ° C), over the rose bushes make permanent shelters for the winter (from sawdust, lapnik, cardboard, pergamina, hydrothermal insulation paper and film).
