October Month 2nd Feeding Before Pruning✂️Rose 🌹Plant ! Dormancy Break,Tips For HeavyFloweting 🌹, by SagarsRoseGarden on YouTube. 13 min 17 s.
- Video length
- 13 min 17 s
- Time to do it
- 30 minutes
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Steps
- 9
What you need
Steps
Water the rose plant deeply the day before you feed it. Moist soil lets the roots take up fertiliser without burning them.
Clear dry leaves, weeds and old mulch from around the base. This removes hiding places for pests and disease.
Spread a balanced rose fertiliser or a handful of compost around the drip line. Keep it a few inches away from the stem.
Add a small dose of chelated iron if the leaves look pale or yellow between the veins. Follow the packet dose.
Water the fertiliser in well so it soaks down to the roots. Do not leave granules sitting on the surface.
Look over the bush and cut out dead, damaged or crossing stems first. Make each cut just above an outward-facing bud.
Trim back long, spindly growth by about a third to shape the plant. This encourages bushier growth and more flowering shoots.
Snip off spent blooms and any thin, weak shoots. Deadheading stops the plant putting energy into seed heads.
Remove fallen leaves and cuttings from the soil surface. Bin them rather than adding diseased material to compost.
Tips and common mistakes
Never feed a dry plant, as fertiliser can burn dry roots.
Do not cut back hard in autumn in cold areas, since new growth may be damaged by frost.
Wipe your pruners with rubbing alcohol between plants to avoid spreading disease.
Keep watering through autumn but reduce it as the weather cools.
Questions
Can I prune roses hard in October?
No. In October, do a light tidy-up only. Save heavy pruning for late winter or early spring when the plant is fully dormant.
How often should I feed roses in autumn?
Feed once at the start of October and again only if the plant shows pale leaves. Too much feed late in the year pushes soft growth that cold weather can kill.
Why are my rose leaves turning yellow?
Pale or yellow leaves between green veins often point to iron shortage. A dose of chelated iron with watering usually helps.
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