@Eustace so one thing that puts me off spraying garlic water is the smell..? I’ve never done it because I really wouldn’t like my roses smelling anything like garlic.. I suppose the question I’ve got for you is does it actually make the plant smell of garlic ?
No, the smell doesn't linger beyond a day. I dilute the paste like a teaspoon of 3G paste in a litre of water and spray at the beginning of the season when the aphids are most active. HTH.
Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
@Tack@Marlorena Thats great on the tea tip - plenty of used teabags here! I'll try it on the beds. I need to remember to save them for the compost bin anyway!
I popped out and planted black baccara earlier (almost half the newbies planted now...) and randomly found a sleeping bumble bee in a spent primula calyx! I tucked him back in and stopped deadheading. @Mr. Vine Eye was it you that put up pics of sleeping bugs you'd found too? I found a few earwigs as well. Also horrified to hear about the vandalism of your plot. What a horrible person.
We’ve got a lot to have to cram in the garden - including the pear I got to espalier at the plot. We want that back - I’ll grow it in that corner next to the apple tree.
Wont get anymore roses until other spaces and plantings are sorted out. I’m excited about Lady of the Lake though. Must get on and prepare the planting hole. Borrowed my dad’s SDS drill to break up the mortar easily.
It’s extraordinary that an allotment association tolerates, thus condones this behaviour from one of it’s members, sorry it’s deterred you from continuing - their loss @Mr. Vine Eye.
I am playing catch-up, having bought far more new roses than I currently have space for. I had set myself a digging deadline of the end of April to get all the new beds prepared. That seems alarmingly near now, thank goodness for pots 😆
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I am not sure why but this spring all the new growth on my roses (about 20 in all spread around the garden) is absolutely beautiful, clean, shiny, a lot of rich red colour, bushy and just super healthy looking. I don't know what I have done differently, perhaps had more time to weed around them last summer with lockdown and all that came with it. Possibly I was a bit more cut throat with the pruning, some were getting very large.
I wondered if anyone else has experienced this or could suggest why it might be.
I'll be so happy if it continues throughout the season.
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Looking forward to seeing lady of the lake.
I popped out and planted black baccara earlier (almost half the newbies planted now...) and randomly found a sleeping bumble bee in a spent primula calyx! I tucked him back in and stopped deadheading. @Mr. Vine Eye was it you that put up pics of sleeping bugs you'd found too? I found a few earwigs as well. Also horrified to hear about the vandalism of your plot. What a horrible person.
Wont get anymore roses until other spaces and plantings are sorted out. I’m excited about Lady of the Lake though. Must get on and prepare the planting hole. Borrowed my dad’s SDS drill to break up the mortar easily.
I am playing catch-up, having bought far more new roses than I currently have space for. I had set myself a digging deadline of the end of April to get all the new beds prepared. That seems alarmingly near now, thank goodness for pots 😆
I wondered if anyone else has experienced this or could suggest why it might be.
I'll be so happy if it continues throughout the season.