Winterizing Your Roses

Edi T.

You work hard from early spring throughout the fall to have a healthy and flourishing garden. You buy the best seeds, bulbs and plants from local garden centers or your favorite online store. But with the onset of winter you start to worry about your plants.

If you have planted roses and are living in an area which has harsh winter, then you need to over winter your plants. That means you must add mulch to them to protect them from frost and snow. You will want to first remove the old mulch from around your rose bush. Next put four stakes Long around the plant and tie burlap around the stakes. Fill the inside of the burlap with dry leaves and organic mulch. This will ensure that your rose plant is protected from cold winds and will not suffer.

You can find various other kinds of containers available to do this job. You should be able to find them at garden centers in your area.

Another Use for Newspaper

Edi T.

If you throw your newspaper out or recycle it, you may want to save a few days worth to help control weeds in your flowerbeds.  You can use old newspapers to smother the weeds in and around the plants you actually want to grow.

There are several different ways to spread the newspapers.  One is to lay them out over the weeds and growth you don’t want in your flowerbeds and put about 3 to 4 inches of organic material over the newspapers.  It will take about a season for the newspapers to break down and, in the mean time; it rids your flowerbeds from the unwanted growth.

The other way works really well.  You wet the newspaper before you lay it out over the unwanted weeds and grass.  It tends to sty in its place while you lay it out and then cover it with the organic material or mulch.

Either way will work for you and it’s easy and you won’t have to pulls weeds for the rest of the year.  It’s even more exciting when you discover that next year you won’t have to pull them either.