I had to reread Nollie's post from yesterday three times to notice... I was thinking, where are they getting the idea, OH is gender neutral... and only then I noticed! I am the slowest here
@Marlorena
With the tea thing - do you have to apply the tea leaves straight away or can they be stored? Just wondering if the tannin degrades over time. I just cut open a spent tea bag and collected the innards in a lidded pot- OH has coincidentally started drinking tea again regularly. So I thought I might as well try it!
Ok.. what I do is save up my used tea bags in a bowl.. after about 5 days or so I have about 20... I slit each one in half, pour out contents into another bowl.. I discard the old tea bags - they don't rot down well unless they're organic.. so now I have this bowl of used tea leaves... I pour this around one rose... next time I will apply it to a different rose and alternate through this season.. so I have 2 roses getting this treatment.. I use my fingers to just rummage it around the base into the topsoil...
Contrary to what you might read in so called myth busting publications, tea does provide some NPK, especially nitrogen.. and so far I've not noticed anything detrimental.. ..in fact, here's a picture today of the rose I'm currently using it on.. this was a rather spindly rose I planted last autumn that I've been spreading the tea around it every so often... of course it's been fed too this spring so that might explain it, but I'm delighted to see all these new shoots coming from the base... you can see the spent tea around it..
@bradleywood32 hi Bradley, welcome to Roses... did you get these from David Austin? tell us which ones they are... we all like to know these things..
...the water is fine... I don't cut back any canes until I see clear signs of vigorous growth which will be a few weeks down the line, then I might snip back a little to a healthy growth, that's all... ...very late in the season to be planting these... just shows what keeping them in cold storage does... it can take them some time to acclimatise in the first year..
Unfortunately not @Marlorena they're from bakker didnt know how bad they are until after I ordered. We have rosa floribunda 'kristall', isabelle autissier and a cuba dance.
I am quite a novice gardener but currently we have a rose apollo that have been in for around 4 years loads of buds but no flowers yet
..oh ok... I've not ordered from bakker before, but your roses looks quite good actually.. better than some I've received in the past from better known suppliers of roses..
..do show some photos later when they are in bloom, you will be most welcome...
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Ok.. what I do is save up my used tea bags in a bowl.. after about 5 days or so I have about 20... I slit each one in half, pour out contents into another bowl.. I discard the old tea bags - they don't rot down well unless they're organic.. so now I have this bowl of used tea leaves... I pour this around one rose... next time I will apply it to a different rose and alternate through this season.. so I have 2 roses getting this treatment.. I use my fingers to just rummage it around the base into the topsoil...
Contrary to what you might read in so called myth busting publications, tea does provide some NPK, especially nitrogen.. and so far I've not noticed anything detrimental..
..in fact, here's a picture today of the rose I'm currently using it on.. this was a rather spindly rose I planted last autumn that I've been spreading the tea around it every so often... of course it's been fed too this spring so that might explain it, but I'm delighted to see all these new shoots coming from the base... you can see the spent tea around it..
Just a quick question on how much water to soak them in. Is this enough? Or does it need to be higher?
Would you also cut back the stems once planted to help root growth?
Thanks
...the water is fine... I don't cut back any canes until I see clear signs of vigorous growth which will be a few weeks down the line, then I might snip back a little to a healthy growth, that's all...
...very late in the season to be planting these... just shows what keeping them in cold storage does... it can take them some time to acclimatise in the first year..
I am quite a novice gardener but currently we have a rose apollo that have been in for around 4 years loads of buds but no flowers yet
..do show some photos later when they are in bloom, you will be most welcome...