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New to roses -- help?
Hi all. This is my first time planting roses, and I'm a
little nervous. I live in Northern Virgina (Zone 7/6) and I ordered three bushes and a climber (Joseph's Coat, Robert Clemens, Laura, and Compassion) from www.heirloomroses.com, primarily because I am an organic gardener, and I've been told that the own-root heirloom varities do not require lots of synthetic sprays. So I got my roses a week and change ago, and was amazed at how small the plants seemed -- around half the size of roses I see at nurseries and such. But I figured, okay, they're young. Then I note the planting instructions. 2'x2'x2' holes? Good god! I am a no-till vegetable gardener, and the thought of digging those enormous holes in my clay-masquerading-as-soil daunted me. Then I actually dug a hole and put the Robert Clemens in. I'm exhausted. It took me days to dig the hole and then try and condition the soil and put the rocks in for drainage and all the other instructions. Meanwhile, the other three plants are still in their little tree seedling containers and I am starting to get worried about them. Should I temporarily pot them? If so, in what size pots? Do I really have to dig the other three holes, or could I no-till them? Help? Orchid See Orchid's Kitties! -- http://nik.ascendancy.net/bengalpage Want a Purebred Cat? Read This! -- http://nik.ascendancy.net/orchid |
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