Hi ,I have rose that has been it a pot outside for about 3 years.I think it's a yellow tea rose .Can I just use multi purpose compost to pot it on .I also have some ericaceous ,thanks.
The usual advice is to use a loam-based compost (John Innes No.3) as MPC doesn’t have enough nutrients in it to keep your rose going for more than a couple of months. If you can’t get that, you could use a 50/50 mix of the MPC and ericaceous and mix in a bit of garden soil if you have it. Unless it is desperate to be repotted, I would be inclined to wait until winter anyway, when it is dormant and supplies of loam-based compost are available again.
If you do wait, in the meantime, you could scrape away a few inches of the soil from the top of the existing pot and top up with what you have to give it a boost, plus feed it some liquid fertiliser now and then.
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If you do wait, in the meantime, you could scrape away a few inches of the soil from the top of the existing pot and top up with what you have to give it a boost, plus feed it some liquid fertiliser now and then.