How to care for roses in the spring after winter

The lush flowering of summer cottages and gardens in spring is the result of not only the long selection of new plant varieties, but also the work of a true gardener. Only they know what it is worth to decorate the plot with a capricious representative of the genus rosehip - a rose. This article contains effective tips for the care of roses in the country.

When to take shelter

Usually, the opening of the bushes is carried out with the first resistant spring heat, but depending on the weather and the region, the timing of disclosure varies. The main condition is sufficiently heated soil. First, you need to make a partial disclosure, leaving roses for a couple of days for airing. If you used a shelter made of dense material, for example, a tarpaulin, then it is impossible to pull with the opening: vypryvanie bushes are much more dangerous than freezing. After removing the shelter shoots must be shaded.

Inspection and trimming bushes

After wintering, healthy shoots should remain green, but the main hazards, such as mold, freezers - longitudinal tears of the bark, as well as infectious burns hide at the base of the bush.

In the spring, roses can have a lot of frozen, diseased and broken branches, while the frozen shoots need to be cut until the middle of the stem is white, and the moldy ones are completely removed.

Signs of gray mold on the shoots are as follows:

• the upper cut of the shoot is rapidly turning brown;
• the escape is covered with a fluffy gray mycelium;
• the stem turns brown;
• a gray patina appears on the shoots.

After the elimination of such infected branches, the bush must be covered with ashes.

Further circumcision is the formation of the crown of the bush. To do this, you need to choose a pair of the most healthy branches and cut them with pruning shears obliquely to the first strong bud.

To cut branches stands half a centimeter above the already developed bud, which grows in the outer side of the bush, but not the inner.

The product of the cut above may lead to the death of wood.You also need to cut all the shoots growing inside the bush. Try to shape the crown so that the center of the bush remains empty.

Rose garter

Bedbug species, before covering for the winter, usually bend down, therefore, after opening and straightening the branches in spring, the bush may seem one-sided.

It is fixable with the help of supports. It is necessary to pry the bend edge of the bush with a pitchfork and support it with wooden rods or tie it with garden wire to the installed support.

Climbing roses need to be tied to supports in the summer, forming the desired shape of the bush. As a support for climbing roses, you can use stretched nets, arches, pillars and conical structures.

Watering

In spring, roses require rare but abundant watering. Since the air is not extremely dry, and the soil is not overheated, frequent watering can provoke fungal diseases of the bush.

As with all plants, it is better to water in the evening when there is no direct sunlight.

Increase watering is worth as the soil dries. In particularly arid areas it is recommended to install a watering system with sprayers.

Top dressing

In the spring of roses, like the rest of the plants on your site, you need to feed. After the first winter after planting, it is enough to feed the bush with organic fertilizers - mullein and bird droppings.

At the same time, feeding must be made with or after irrigation in order not to burn the young root. Mineral fertilizers in this case will overload the plant.

Further fertilizers are also accompanied by mineral supplements, which should include potassium, magnesium, nitrogen, iron and phosphorus. Such fertilizers are produced both in liquid form and in granulated form. It is enough to apply fertilizer twice a year:

1. Spring after pruning;
2. In the summer after the first flowering.

To overload a plant with fertilizers is much worse than not giving them at all. Frequent fertilizers are important when the soil is not sufficiently adapted for planting of one species or another, or if you decide to transplant a shrub.

Mulching

After spring dressing, do the mulching.

This event helps the proper development of the plant: it retains the desired level of moisture, prevents root erosion and leaching of fertilizers, reduces the number of weeds, maintains soil looseness and maintains temperature during the whole year.

It is possible to carry out mulching, regardless of the season and stage of growth of the bush, but the best option, as with fertilizer application, will be twice a year - in spring and at the end of summer. As mulch can be used as organic (bark, sawdust, hay), and inorganic (gravel, pebble) materials.

Agricultural mulching is simple:

1. Free the root area from the weeds;
2. With a thin layer of mulch, cover the soil at the base of the bush, without covering the branches themselves;
3. If it is organic mulch, wait for the layer to rot, and shuffle it gently with the soil;
4. Pour a new layer of mulch.

Mulch, which is suitable for any kind of plants, including roses, mullein or chicken droppings.In this case, the process of mulching is also a fertilizer.

Preventive treatment

Caring for roses is a year-round matter of importance: fertilizing a bush in the summer is no less important than sheltering a plant from frost in the fall, pruning branches after winter, or treating from diseases and pests in the spring. Immediately after opening and pruning in the spring, roses are prevented from powdery mildew, rust, aphids and spider mites.

For washing frostbite from possible infections and fungi prepare a solution in the proportion of 100 g of copper sulfate with a concentration of 3% on a bucket of warm water, and this is sprayed with a brush and a root part of the soil.

To prevent the further spread of infection of roses, they also need to be sprayed with soap and a solution based on hot pepper.

Yes, the process of growing roses is laborious and long, but what affection brings beautiful tender buds and an almost elusive scent. This gardener will never regret the time and effort spent looking at his result. What and you wish after reading the article!