Tip For Stripping Winter Leaves Off Large Roses

Most rose care books commend slay older leaves on your roses either over the wintertime or right after pruning . The thinking is that doing so also removes any disease spores that may linger over the winter on the foliage .

It ’s sound intellection and I feel a dependable estimate . On sustenance foliation fungal spore like blackspot can over winter , only to remerge the following spring . Removing the leaf and getting them out of the garden simply means less fungal spore in spring when the roses burst back into growth .

This is easy to do when pruning intercrossed tea rosebush in the classic style . You only prune them down to 18 inches or so and then beak off what few leaves remain . But , today ’s mod shrub roses ( and many honest-to-god blush wine ) do n’t get cut back hard aka the classic hybrid tea method . Instead , after things like dead and light canes are bump off , they are plainly shaped into the desired size for that spot in the garden . Of naturally coupled with their favourite fledged size .

This makes pruning easier because there is less to cut , but it make leaf stripping a whole lot harder because there are a lot of leaves left . denude all those leaves by hand does not fit into the concept of easy charge shrub roses . Not to advert try doing that on a large climb mount !

Thankfully there is an easier room . Burn them off .

No , not with a torch or by adjust the pink wine on fervor !

alternatively use a product that should be part of your winter pruning regime anyway . Dormant Lime and Sulfur Spray couple with Horticultural Oil .

When used together on just prune pink wine they kill any remaining fungal spores . The S does the killing and the oil makes certain it adhere to the plant so it can do its job . Sulfur by itself can also be used during the growing time of year to help get a fungal irruption under control and you’re able to read about thatherein a old post . Note the one matter I discourage against when using it during the growing season is to do it on a cloudy twenty-four hours because it , in compounding with lineal Dominicus , can burn the leaves .

But now we can harness that power for commodity !

After you finish your pruning , mix the sulfur and oil together as per directions on the bottle . Then spray it all over the blush wine , making sure to get the leave really covered . Most importantly , check that the Dominicus is out and eminent in the sky . Once the atomic number 16 and oil coat the foliage the sunlight will burn off them and they will simply come down off . If they do n’t all fall off you’re able to put on it again in a few calendar week and that should get the quietus of them .

you may also do this well before clip season if you want to get the folio off so the winter wind do n’t use them as sails and snap cane . Anytime after the roses go dormant is ok .

Since using the sulfur and petroleum is something you should do anyway , you are n’t adding to your work load . Doing it while the sun is out combine two jobs and test as with so many things – timing is everything !

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