Category: Flowers

HOW TO PROPAGATE ROSES

from www.bhg.com What You’ll Need Equipment / Tools Sharp pruners, scissors, or knife. Disinfect with rubbing alcohol or Lysol. A 2.5- to 5-inch-deep pot that drains well. This could be as simple as the cut-off bottom of a plastic milk…

HOMEMADE FERTILIZERS

BANANA PEELS – Eating a banana helps replenish lost potassium. Roses love potassium too. Simply throw one or two peels in the hole before planting or bury peels under mulch so they can compost naturally. Get bigger and more blooms.…

BLACKSPOT ON ROSES

From rosemagazine.com Blackspot, “Diplocarpon rosae”, is a nasty fungus that manifests itself on rose bushes as black spots on leaves progressing to black spots fringed with yellow rings on both sides of the leaves. As they develop the spots enlarge.…