As long as your roses
are mulched the drip will keep the soil
nice & moist. So if you get the
fert. below the mulch you should be fine.

The tags usually say scratch soil & water
in but who ever wrote this up has obviously
never dealt with a lavender lassie. Mine
is a 6'wide by 4' high mass sprouting from
a single basal cane. I'd be glad to see
the base but that has been an impossibility
for some time now.

All this has forced me to move to a liquid
only diet for my roses. I use Fish emulsion
exclusively.

--
Theo in Zone 5
Kansas City

"Jon Boehm" wrote in message
...
I'm near Portland OR. I believe thats zone 6 or 7. Rain is common up
untill the 5th of July -- a local joke. The last half of July and
August are ususally ~dry.

Currently I'm watering for 1hr in the morning every 3 days.

What do you think?

Jon

In article ,
Cass wrote:

In article , Jon Boehm
wrote:

Jon, you didn't ask about the drip emitter, but depending on your
summer rainfall, a 1 gallon emitter might not be adequate. Where are
you located and what kind of summer rain do you get?


HTH.