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Forensic Science for Rose Deaths?
Shiva wrote: ...I did pull them out, and they look pretty much the same as when I put them in. No vole chew marks, no evidence of any rot. But it has been a while, and any little hairy roots may have just disintegrated.... . The soil is great--heavy, black, but soft and diggable. I bought some of it and added aged manure and pine bark fines, the stuff that is bagged and sold as "soil conditioner." Once I got some bagged "soil conditioner compost" that had some residual weed killer. Not enough to kill things but enough tokeep them from growing. Have you tested the soil PH? I was of the habit of mounding some roses for winter with peat moss and in the spring just raking the peat moss and spreading it around the bed. Eventually I began to have trouble with replacement roses getting established. They seemed to take a lot of extra water to prevent wilting in the summer and in a year or two winter kill got them. One spring a new planted rose just leafed out and did nothing. I dug it up and found no feeder roots had grown at all. Apparently the plant was drawing up enough water without roots to green up , but not enough to grow. Established plants in the same bed seemed to be OK. A long odessey later, I found out that the soil had become so acid from years of peat moss additions that new plants would not even grow roots in it. You probably had a water problem, but I would not rule out a soil PH test. Regards, Charles -- Charles Perry Reply to: ** A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand ** |
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