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Month |
Garden Emphasis |
Insects |
Disease |
Planning |
If exhibit in late June |
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Jan |
Snow as winterizing insulation. |
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Select New Roses from Internet and catalogs. Consider how you will expand
the rose hobby in the coming year: more, better, photography, exhibiting? |
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Feb |
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Select New Roses from Internet and catalogs |
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Mar |
If using cones, remove tops on hot days. Replace at night. |
Some people recommend dormant spray at this time. |
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Sharpen and Clean tools |
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April |
Slowly remove winter protection from old, plant new bare root roses. Prune. |
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Keep garden clean from past diseased leaves and stems. |
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May |
Fertilize old, plant new nursery roses from containers. Continue periodic
pruning as needed. Cover pruning wound with pruning wax or white glue. |
Aphids. Possible leaf cutter bees and caterpillars. Cane boring insects at
the pruning cut. |
Mildew and perhaps Black Spot. Commence defensive fungal spray program now. |
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Inventory Show materials and tools |
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June |
Fertilize old. Water as needed. Pick roses for vases. Deadhead. |
Aphids. Possible leaf cutter bees and caterpillars. |
Black Spot. |
Pile grass clippings for compost. |
Look for possibles. Special fertilizing timed for the Show, perhaps. |
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Jul |
Fertilize. Water. Deadhead. |
Japanese Beetles. |
Black Spot. Some mildew. |
Pile grass clippings for compost. |
Visit/enter Rose shows in neighbor states |
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Aug |
Last fertilizer early in the month. Water as needed. |
Japanese Beetles. |
Powdery Mildew. Black Spot. |
Pile grass clippings for compost. |
Special pruning for fall rose shows (about 45 days prior) |
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Sep |
Continue removing diseased leaves from the garden. |
Fewer Japanese Beetles |
Powdery Mildew. Black Spot. |
Pile well-mulched leaves for compost. |
Fall rose shows occur. |
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Oct |
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Less Powdery Mildew. Black Spot. |
Pile well-mulched leaves for compost. |
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Nov |
Winterize in late Nov. or early Dec. |
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Dig rose holes for next spring's plantings before ground freezes and while
ground can be easily worked. Remove the rocks and when hole is ready cover
solidly with plywood (or refill with loose soil and mark the location). |
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Dec |
Complete winterizing. |
Not insects, but voles may be a problem under winterizing materials. They
keep warmer, but eat rose roots. |
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Select New Roses from Internet and catalogs. Read good rose book. |
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