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Aphids on my roses, time to wage war
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"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. |
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