Monday, August 24, 2009

Organic Rose Gardenng-Grow The Best Roses

Instead of envying your neighbor’s rose garden, you too can grow healthy plants with magnificent blooms, rich in color and sweet fragrance. Most people think that growing organic roses takes too much time and effort but in truth, you can have a gorgeous garden with little help simply by knowing how. Roses have been the number one flower throughout the world’s existence, grown naturally without modern day chemicals. If you love roses and want to do what you can to promote a healthy environment, you can simply by getting involved with rose planting naturally.

The three things that have always been important for planting roses are healthy soil, the sun, and lots of water. For soil and water, organic rose gardening needs rich soil and deep watering. Since roses produce roots deep in the ground, water has to be deep as well. Using rich soil and giving your roses plenty of water will ensure your garden is healthy and the flowers on your roses beautiful.

You will find that a part of organic rose gardening is a unique process called photosynthesis, which means that the leaves change due to water and energy from the sun. As mentioned, soil is a critical part of organic gardening due to microorganisms such as fungus, worms, bacteria, and nematodes actually help roses. These microorganisms help to break down dead leaves, stems, and other parts of the plant, which creates rich, healthy soil. If you add commercial chemicals to the soil for rose gardening, these microorganisms are killed and ultimately, the roses suffer.

You will also find that rose bushes can become accustomed to chemicals so if you start your garden using commercial products and then try to switch to organic growing, the roses would have a difficult time adjusting. Most people think that organic rose gardening is expensive but in truth, it is more affordable than using chemicals so if you want gorgeous blooms with amazing fragrance, stay away from chemicals.

As mentioned earlier, one of the key elements of organic rose gardening has to do with the soil. One of the best ways for proper rose bush care is to create rich soil is by using compost. You can create your own compost pile simply by throwing all your waste into an area of the yard away from the home. This would include food scraps, grass clippings, dog waste, and literally anything that would decay. As the compost pile gets larger, it would need to be turned, which helps with the overall decay process, heating things up so when used, the soil would be highly nutritious.

Another important aspect of organic rose gardening has to do with insects. While some are bad, others such as ladybugs and wasps are actually beneficial. Therefore, if you were to use harsh chemicals on the roses, you would kill bugs the garden needs. In addition, grubs and worms that can do significant damage to a rose garden can be controlled naturally by allowing birds, snakes, lizards, and frogs to roam free. Again, chemicals would kill these creatures whereas organic products would not.

Organic rose gardening is not complicated or expensive, as you might imagine. Just remember that whenever your are planting your roses to use rich soil, water the roses deep, give the roses bushes plenty of sunshine, and use only natural products or remedies. As the rose bushes grow, you will see large, colorful blooms that would make you the talk of the town. In fact, growing roses organically will provide you with plants that live longer than roses treated with chemicals.

1 comment:

  1. It is so relaxing to see a beautiful landscape with colorful and healthy roses every time you wake up. You can achieve this for your home. Through proper maintenance and good landscaping, you can achieve the garden that you've always dreamt of.

    Luigi Keaty

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