Of course you would have to be careful with your watering......roses hate wet feet.I would use black visqueen for the whole bed and cut out holes to plant roses lined with newspaper.
Yeah, the drip we put in the bed helps with that. We've got some plastic in other flower beds, but never have done that in the roses.Of course you would have to be careful with your watering......roses hate wet feet.
Thanks CCC. I live in NE LA, (think duck dynasty country). Real simple, you can buy Taurus(fipronil) at your local feed and seed store. Put 2 ounces in 5 gal of water, mix. Pour into the hole when you transplant and you will have no bugs. A light dose of spinosad and no worms. I put out 15-15-15 granular lightly weekly, seems to work well. I’ll get some pics of my “other” garden a bit later today.
8 oz or so, not too much at allHow much in each transplant hole?
Our other garden is the wife’s specialty...
Her mother used to keep a large rose bed (75+ bushes) and we put in a couple of beds when we first got married in our old house. We’ve got 20 bushes that started bare root. Bought from Jackson-Perkins. Initial quality was ok, not as good as what we used to buy from the old Test Gardens in Thomasville GA from the Hjort’s, an old Dutch couple that ran it. They specialized in roses and camellias. They had about every variety of tea, grandiflora, etc. that you could imagine. When they retired, the Test Gardens were sold and a business of some sort went up. Don’t find places like that anymore.
The Hjort’s always suggested planting on a bed of mushroom compost and garden soil and fertilize with “Tobacco Special,” which is hard to find nowadays (the particular assay escapes me). Then follow up monthly with “Rose Special” through the growing season. It’s a lot of fun and the missus always has a bouquet for church and birthdays.
Thanks, it’s a highly productive piece of land. 6th generation so you could say that I’ve been around it a bunch. It’s not my first line of business (insurance agent), but I do love it, been my side hustle for the last 15 years.That’s a good looking piece of property @Albert. Something tells me you’ve been doing this a while :). I’m guessing you grew up around farming?
Current view from my other garden. We got through planting cotton today
Yes, our beds are set up using GPS guidance.Thats called plowing looking straight ahead. Satellite or computer guided?
Actually, vertebrates don’t have the nerve receptor this stuff works on. So you’re gonna have to blame something else.Fipronil is a broad-spectrum insecticide that belongs to the phenylpyrazole chemical family. Fipronil disrupts the insect central nervous system by blocking GABA-gated chloride channels and glutamate-gated chloride channels. This causes hyperexcitation of contaminated insects' nerves and muscles.
Sounds kinda like me at times.
Actually, vertebrates don’t have the nerve receptor this stuff works on. So you’re gonna have to blame something else.