"Jen" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
"Ms Leebee" wrote in
message

Have never noticed ants in connection with my roses, but will
keep a
sharper
lookout.

I've been wondering about this since Len and others kept reporting
that they have both on their roses.

I know that I do a fair amount of scratching around and managing
the
soil and the plants under my roses and the ant nests in my garden
are
all in drier places where I do not ever disturb them.

I had one bed which did have ants harvesting from scale insect
from a
bush but as soon as I started working up that bed and improving
the
soil and improved my general sol management practices, they
disappeared and haven't been back since.

How do you grow your roses and manage the soil?

I always thought that cultivating the soil around a plant is bad for
it's
roots.

Depends on how close you get.

Anyway the ants that I have are coming from under the house and in
the mortar of the bricks.

Yes that makes sense. A nice dry undisturbed spot rather than in an
area of cultivation.