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The best advice and tips for everyone who wants beautiful roses. Whether you grow them in a pot or out in the garden, these tips will certainly come in handy.
Roses love garlic
The basis for beautiful flowering and plenty of blooms is to remove weeds and invasive species from the vicinity of the roses. If you don’t want them to steal nutrients and moisture, keep the area around the roses clean whenever possible.
If you want to protect your roses from pests, especially aphids, it’s good to have them near garlic. This combination may seem bizarre, but it will ensure trouble-free flowering and healthy plants.
A miracle for roses – turmeric
One of the basic conditions for flowering is regularly removing spent flowers and also damaged and dead parts of the bushes. If you want these places to quickly produce new fresh shoots again, use turmeric powder to treat the cut (removed) parts. It has antifungal and antibacterial effects. On the other hand, it acts as a stimulant and besides treating, it supports the growth and vitality of the plants. From time to time it’s good to sprinkle a little turmeric powder on the soil around the plants as well – it nourishes, stimulates and provides protection against pests and diseases.
The best nutrition for roses
Among the best homemade fertilizers are ordinary banana peels, used tea, or ash and yeast. Banana peels are an important source of potassium, which the plant needs especially during the active flowering phase. You can bury banana peels directly near the plant roots or water with a banana-peel infusion (pour water over the peels and let them steep for several days). Used tea is also excellent: let it dry well in the sun and mix it directly into the soil around the plants. Use 2–4 teaspoons directly into the soil.
A gardener’s tried-and-true fertilizer
Mix 10 g of dried yeast with 2 tablespoons of sugar and pour a glass of warm water over it. Let stand for 15 minutes in a warm place, then dilute with 10 liters of warm water. Use this solution diluted at a ratio of 1.5 liters of solution to 5 liters of water. Pour 1 liter of this feed at the base of each rose. Before use, the soil around the root should be slightly moist so it can better absorb the nutrients. The results will appear very quickly and you’ll see them in just a few days.
After 2–3 days, repeat only the ash feed, which you prepare by mixing a one-liter jar of sifted ash with 10 liters of water and boiling for 2 hours. Let cool and pour half a liter of this solution under each rose. A fantastic feed rich in potassium and phosphorus, which stimulates growth and bud setting. The plants are beautiful, fresh and bloom like crazy.
A beautiful flowering garden is the dream of every flower grower. And with this feed your roses will be like something out of a fairy tale.
If you see aphids, this spray always works
We need:
- 2 liters of water
- 1 tablespoon of vinegar
- A spray bottle
Procedure:
I simply mixed it and sprayed the roses in the evenings for three days in a row (it’s good if it doesn’t rain during those days so the spray will stay on the roses).
That got rid of the aphids for me, but because there were many everywhere I took preventive measures – I sprayed the roses a few times with a nettle infusion – fill a bucket one third full with nettles, pour in water, let it steep for a day and then simply spray it onto the plants. I also use this infusion in the vegetable garden – it’s a perfect fertilizer for tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant and peppers.
