Roses are flowers that cause admiration. Indeed, it is impossible not to be delighted at the contemplation of these perfect natural creatures! All kinds of roses: stamping, curly, curb, tea-hybrid are an excellent decoration of the landscape. But care for royal flowers is quite complicated, while it is necessary to observe the systematic, cultivating roses on your site. Spring work is especially laborious.
Treatment of roses after winter
Caring for roses after the winter provides for a number of works:
- removal of shelter;
- pruning;
- protection against diseases and pests;
- watering and top dressing.
Opening roses after winter
The removal of the shelter from the planting of flowers should be carried out in a timely manner, as if the rose is opened too early, roses may suffer from frosts (primarily nocturnal ones), and in case of late removal of the covering material, rose bushes will be prevented from moisture and high temperatures. Agrotechnicians recommend opening roses, when the average daytime temperature reaches +10 ... +12 degrees.
Tip : before removing the winter shelter, it is recommended to trample snow around the roses to prevent the mice from penetrating to flower plantings. In addition, it is desirable to establish mousetraps in places inaccessible to birds, to destroy rodents, attempting on pink shoots.
Pruning roses
Caring for roses includes such an obligatory operation as pruning shrubs. In fact, this type of work is a sanitary treatment, during which blackened, broken and dried up shoots are eliminated. Experienced gardeners advise pruning to be carried out two weeks after the removal of the shelter, so that it is clearly visible which shoots have not suffered a long wintering. The branches are trimmed to the first living kidney. Also in the process of pruning is the formation of growing shrubs. After the plants are cut off, the sections are treated with a garden hive or ordinary greenery, then from the root zone they rake off the rubbish collected during the winter, loosen the soil and make circular grooves.
Protection against pests and diseases
The question of how to treat roses after winter is very relevant for those who are recently engaged in the cultivation of roses. After all, I want to choose an effective tool, while not harming tender beauties. Immediately after being released from the shelter, bushes are treated for fungal diseases with a 3% Bordeaux fluid . To prepare the solution, 200 g of copper sulfate and 200 g of quicklime in 10 liters of water are diluted. To combat the fungus, fungicides are best suited, which can be used for preventive purposes.
During the budding period, caterpillars that destroy leaflets often appear, and aphids that suck the juice out. Preventing an attack, it is necessary to spray roses with an insecticide: Decis, Intavir, Aktara, and the soil around the root areas is treated with Prestige or Diasianon.
Top dressing of roses in early spring
No less important is the question of how to feed roses after winter, because timely and full feeding is a pledge of lush and abundant flowering plants. In late April - early May, nitrogen fertilizer is introduced. You can replace it with a solution of mullein, ammonium nitrate or use humus. The next feeding is recommended to be done after 2 - 3 weeks, and when buds are formed, feed the flowers with calcium nitrate, diluted at the rate of 1 tablespoon per 10 liters of water, or any complex fertilizer. In this case, all fertilizers should be added in liquid form, using approximately 3 liters of nutrient solution per bush. To water roses is necessary quite often, with the first signs of drying the soil. To preserve moisture, the soil around the bushes is usually mulched .