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Q. In previous years, I started fertilizing our roses in March. They performed poorly last year, so I want to feed them earlier. Is it OK to start now, and, if so, is there any special formula or nutrients required for the first feeding?
A. Roses perform best in shredded wood as surface mulch. You never want to grow roses in rock mulch which I see a lot in this town in case you are doing that. Doesn’t matter what you do, if they are in rock they will not look good in year three or four and beyond.
March should be OK but it would be nicer if you applied fertilizer a bit earlier, say in late January or early February. Roses perform better in soils enriched with compost, applied fertilizers high in phosphorus plus an iron fertilizer and wood mulch several inches deep.
Use a good quality rose fertilizer plus an application of iron chelate, preferably EDDHA, applied to the soil. There are other chelated iron fertilizers out there that are cheaper but this one is consistently the best iron chelate for our soils.
If you are applying iron to the foliage you will have to wait until they fully leaf out in about March. Foliar sprays should include a spreader or liquid detergent added to the spray solution at the very end of the mixing.
Viragrow has several types of wood mulches for landscape plants including colored wood mulch and EDDHA iron at very reasonable prices. Viragrow delivers!
Q. In previous years, I started fertilizing our roses in March. They performed poorly last year, so I want to feed them earlier. Is it OK to start now, and, if so, is there any special formula or nutrients required for the first feeding?
A. Roses perform best in shredded wood as surface mulch. You never want to grow roses in rock mulch which I see a lot in this town in case you are doing that. Doesn’t matter what you do, if they are in rock they will not look good in year three or four and beyond.
March should be OK but it would be nicer if you applied fertilizer a bit earlier, say in late January or early February. Roses perform better in soils enriched with compost, applied fertilizers high in phosphorus plus an iron fertilizer and wood mulch several inches deep.
Use a good quality rose fertilizer plus an application of iron chelate, preferably EDDHA, applied to the soil. There are other chelated iron fertilizers out there that are cheaper but this one is consistently the best iron chelate for our soils.
If you are applying iron to the foliage you will have to wait until they fully leaf out in about March. Foliar sprays should include a spreader or liquid detergent added to the spray solution at the very end of the mixing.
Viragrow has several types of wood mulches for landscape plants including colored wood mulch and EDDHA iron at very reasonable prices. Viragrow delivers!
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