3 Common mistakes when preparing Roses for winter, from

The queen of all flowers is a rose, it is distinguished by its “capriciousness” and especially needs a delicate approach of a gardener on the eve of winter.

When I just started growing roses, unfortunately, I lost several gorgeous plants, making mistakes, which, as it turned out later, are generally common!

Therefore - I want to warn from my own experience, as you should never prepare roses for winter!

Incorrect cropping

If you hold it when the temperature is above zero day or night outside, this will lead to the fact that plants begin to form new branches and, naturally, will not be able to fully immerse themselves in "sleep"!

Therefore, it is better to postpone the pruning until stable frosts, even until mid-October.

Leaves are subject to removal - because they can serve as a potential breeding ground for fungal diseases, and also, having lost them, roses begin to concentrate all nutrients in the underground part and complete the growing season much better.

It is also necessary to cut off the unripe shoots and the remaining ovaries, buds.

Shelter too warm

In fact, favorable conditions for roses are created not so much by covering materials as by an air gap between them and the bush.

If it is banal to fill up the roses with something warmer, then they run the risk of overheating under this, crush and die before spring, or seriously weaken, deprived of the opportunity to "breathe" normally.

The best option for shelter is a frame - made of polymer tubes, boards or even plywood boxes with perforation.

A white spunbond with a density of 60 g / sq. Should be thrown over the frame. m., and then - nature itself will create the best "blanket" for roses - covering them with a thick layer of snow.

Incorrect hilling

First of all, I want to clarify that hilling is necessary only for self-rooted roses grown from cuttings, which by their nature have an exclusively "fearful" of cold weather root system. Others can do just fine without it.

The purpose of hilling is insulation. Therefore, it should be performed only in dry weather - damp earth, shifted closer to the plant, will only hurt!

You should also not rake the soil from the bush itself closer to the stem. Indeed, in this way, part of the soil that covered the root system disappears and it risks freezing!

I used to take soil from another place in the garden for hilling roses. And also, it is good to mix it with a small amount of peat, which has good thermal insulation qualities.