Blood, Fish & Bone

Can I still put down Blood, Fish & Bone around my roses to prolong the flowering into autumn?

Thanks...

 

Hi Rydall, feed them by all means but the only way to prolong the flowering is to dead head diligently, and even then when they are done, they are done chum.


By the way, hello and welcome to GC

 

Thanks Claire. I am always dead-heading them...Evergreens are seeming a lot more appealing!

Thanks for the welcome....

 

Personally I only feed in spring after pruning and some years a second feed mid season.

Autumn feeding risks making lush growth / shoots that will cause wind rock or break. Claire is spot on regards dead heading.

 

Yeah but , well they just aren`t roses are they? Besides have a care for me-my love is peonies!

 

That's what I was worried about Paul at this time of year. I didn't get chance to do it mid-season. I guess that I should now wait until next spring and just keep dead-heading.

Cheers...

 

Hi again Rydall, it`s up to you entirely, but i do feed twice a year and no problem with any rocking about-mind I have a protected garden, and I am developing an earnest interest in roses and find it totally fascinating that they need differnet attention in different circumstances, sometimes even in the same garden!

 

Hi Claire, the garden where the roses are in gets a lot of stronmg winds through the winter so I had better not risk it. I will leave it until spring I think and then again in July after the first set of flowering. I was bored with roses many years ago but now find the different varieties fascinating especially as we garden organically so have to put up with the odd blackspot and aphids.

 

BTW, i use nutra rose micro. It seems to work well and you only need a small sprinkle per bush.

http://www.greenacres.eu.com/rose_product_details.php?prodID=39&name=Nutrarose Micro

 

Mad aren`t we? Roses are the perfect English garden flower in my own opinion that is, and they have sentimental value to me-remind me of my Mum.

 

Agree, Im fairly obssesive about them.

 

Paul, I was out today wiping down each stem-and the neighbours were watching me and chuckling.


I should explain I was also talking to them aswell.

 

that is a bit lol, mind i always check my own roses daily for aphids!

 

" i do feed twice a year and no problem with any rocking"

I feed twice a year, but my second feed was after the first flush of flowers - a month or so ago now - and I think feeding now would be too late, as Pro says.

I use a proprietary Rose food (forgotten the name, but its got "Rose" in it!), and I reckon B, F & B is going to be slow acting, in part, and for that reason would be better used early in the season.

 

Applying nutra rose micro

Hi all I'm new!
Just bought some patio roses and some nutra rose micro.
The package does not say how to apply it thou.
I was wondering if it needed to go in the watering can but then I
found this post about sprinkling it :o.
Does it need to be dug into the soil or placed on top?
and how much should I use per tub?
Thanks