How To Plant Rose Bushes In Landscaping Your GardenWritten by Paul Curran
For planting roses a good garden loam with organic matter is important. It must contain peat moss, leaf mold, compost, rotted or commercial manure, and bed should be prepared as far ahead of planting as is feasible in order to allow for settling of soil. Fall is best time for setting out roses, but you can plant in spring. When they arrive from nursery, plant at once. If they have dried en route, soak roots and put tops in a bucket of water before planting. Trim back any roots that are weak, long or broken at this time. Dig a hole that is wide enough to allow roots to spread without crowding. The rose is properly placed when bud (the point where top joins roots) is just under ground surface. Space hybrid teas about 18 inches apart in any direction. Prune branches 6 to 10 inches from soil. To grow good roses it is necessary to cultivate, to prune and to spray. If you have a well-cultivated bed you need not worry about watering. But if you start to water in hot weather, you must keep it up, soaking roots thoroughly about once a week.
| | Rid Your Garden of SlugsWritten by Marilyn Pokorney
REQUIREMENTS FOR REPRINT: You have permission to publish this article free of charge in your e-zine, newsletter, ebook, print publication or on your website ONLY if it remains unchanged and you include copyright and author information (Resource Box) at end. You may not use this article in any unsolicited commercial email (spam).You may retrieve this article by: Autoresponder: slugtips@getresponse.com Website: http://www.apluswriting.net/articles/slugtips.txt Words: 435 words Copyright: 2005 Marilyn Pokorney Please leave resource box intact with an active link, and send a courtesy copy of publication in which article appears to: marilynp@nctc.net ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- Slugs are major pests of horticultural plants throughout world. They are destructive pests of home gardens, landscapes, nurseries, greenhouses, and field crops. Slugs also pose a health threat to humans, pets and wildlife by serving as intermediate hosts for parasites such as lungworm. Slugs are inactive in cold weather and hibernate in soil. Heavy mulching and watering, required for productive and beautiful gardens create favorable conditions for slugs. Slugs destroy plants by killing seeds or seedlings, by destroying stems or growing points, or by reducing leaf area. Slug feeding may also initiate mold growth or rotting. Slugs feed on a variety of living plants chewing holes in leaves, flowers, fruit and young bark. They are also serious pests of ripening fruits, such as strawberries and tomatoes, that are close to ground. However, they will also feed on foliage and fruit of some trees favoring citrus. Some plants that are seriously damaged include artichokes, asparagus, basil, beans, cabbage, dahlia, delphinium, hosta, lettuce, marigolds, and many more plants too numerous to list here. To determine if damage is caused by a slug or other insect, look for a clear, silvery mucous trail.
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