Tuesday 24 Apr 2007
The Daily Weeder Mother’s Day Contest!!
Hello Fellow Gardeners,
In honor of Spring I decided we would hold a contest where you can win one of my all time favorite roses! I’ve said before that roses being hard to take care of is just a myth, and this rose proves it!
The Robusta rose is the easiest rose I know! To enter to win this amazing rose just tell us in your comments below…
“What is one of your favorite tried and true garden tips?”
Since I have such a hard time deciding who will win since all your comments are so wonderful, I decided…
We will give away 1 rosebush to 3 winners!
Here is what Heirloom Roses has to say about the Robusta Rose…
“Robusta’ would make a nice addition to any garden even if it didn’t bloom which it does in profusion. Rated as the number 1 rose in America by the A.R.S. Eye-catching, single, red blooms in clusters produced in abundance on a vigorous, upright bush with beautiful, medium-green, glossy, leathery foliage. The thick canes are covered with nail-like prickles. For specimen planting, fence, hedge or impenetrable barrier. Continual bloom.”
The shrub grows to six feet, and produces incredibly beautiful red fragrant clusters of blooms.
I’ve had enormous success with this rose, I consider it one of the stars of my garden! I’ve had the shrub for three years and it is already up to four feet! However, if you don’t care for a huge bush, you can keep it trimmed down to the size you need.
Here are the contest rules and all the small print…
- We reserve the right to provide a gift certificate of an equal value instead of the rose (in case the rose sells out or some other disaster happens!).
- There will be only one rose given to each of the three winners!
- The contest lasts until Mother’s Day, Sunday May 13th, at which time we will choose the three winners.
- You must provide a tip to enter the contest, any other comments will not be considered.
- We choose the winners at our sole discretion.
I hope you enjoy the contest! Write away!
Happy Gardening,
Marie Suzanne 
Marie | roses, northern gardening
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My favorite tried and true gardening tip is to use raised beds. The soil can be worked up, ammended, and mounded to leave plenty of room for roots to seek deeply into the earth. This works well in the veggie garden and in the flower beds. Also helps to keep roots away from standing water that can suffocate. Altough initially it is much more work, the rewards are great. Happy spring and happy gardening!!
My most helpful gardening tip has to be the one about stirring up the new little weed seeds frequently, so they can’t really get a good start. It doesn’t take nearly as long to do this on a daily basis as one thinks…. Weeding a bed that has become weed covered takes MUCH longer!
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My all time favorite garden tip, which many rose gardeners already know, I’m sure, is to save those rotten bananas! I freeze any that have gone past their prime and then when I plant a new rose bush I bury a rotten banana or two in the planting hole with the bush. My Brother gave me a climbing blaze had that never bloomed, I transplanted to my yard and it took off. I ended up having an arch over the entryway, with another cane climbing across a metal arbor. On the other side I planted an antique rose, Pinkie so they intertwined. My front yard (my old house in Boston, Ma) had been covered in asphalt, fenced in with chain link and an 8′ privet hedge. When I got done, I had roses including a gorgeous Queen Elizabeth blooming until Thanksgiving, with a white picket fence.The garden is what sold the house to the next owner. Unfortunately several years later it has sold again, when I drove by, I see that the new owner has torn up all the roses. The house is still painted pink though Ha Ha!
Don’t skip watering even once. The key to a healthy garden is frequent and regular watering.
After using any garden tool, e.g., snips, pruning shears, hoe, loppers, etc., take the time to clean the tool thoroughly and oil it down with WD-40. User maintenance will prolong the life of your tools for gardening and make it more pleasurable.
I am a novice when it comes to growing roses. That being said, my guess would be to care for them by watering and using plant food to promote healthy blooms. These are very beautiful roses that would compliment anyone’s garden.
Adding up to 4 inches of organic mulch, such as wood shavings, leaf mold or compost, around roses optimizes growth and reduces watering and diseases.
Talk to them, love them, and they will love you back! Really!
I recently received a tip from a neighbor whose rose bushes are always lush and blooming. Her advice for growing roses can be stated in two words: healthy neglect. She waters them twice a week and fertilizes once a year, then leaves them alone the rest of the time to do their thing.
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My best tip would be to double-dig deeply any new garden and incorporate lots of compost to loosen the soil. We have also used sand and gypsum to loosen really heavy clay. After plants are planted mulch with lots of rich compost. Then add as many earthworms as possible and have years of great gardening.
My favorite garden tip is this, at the end of the season, leave the spent plants to overwinter. There are many birds and beneficial insects that will be attracted by the seedheads, plus come spring you may be surprised by how many of those *annuals* come back again! Not only is it a very pleasant surprise in spring, those new plants are generally more hardy than the originals were.
My great aunt won prizes for her roses, and her secret was diluted ice tea three times a summer. Something in the tea makes them grow-plain old Lipton Iced Tea.
Make sure to fertilize everything twice a year. It makes a huge difference.
My favorite tip is to plant all my seeds indoors before it is warm enough to plant them outdoors. Then, by the time they are ready to be transplanted, the birds won’ttry to eat the seeds, and the plants have already grown to a healthy size.
I only water in the early evenings.
Put coffee grounds around your rose bushes for brighter color……
The best tip I have is to get to know other people that garden. They have the most knowledge and can help you when you get stuck and do not know what to do. It is a great way to visit in the nursering home. There are a lot of good gardners that live there.
I like to water my roses once a week, but i turn the hose on low and water good and deep for 2 to 3 hours.
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I have not gardened, but I have a huge interest in it. I guess I am afraid I won’t have a green thumb.
I love my Roses.I sprinkle a tablespoon of epson salts around my roses bushes in early spring and fall. Adding the coffee grounds to your soil gets them jumping but most of all water,water water.
i love roses. i need these because due to constructio in my backyard my rose have to be dug uo.
I love roses. It reminds me of my grandmother. She had a beautiful rose garden.
I love YELLOW Roses as they were my grandmothers favorite. Since I stayed with her every summer from the week after school was out until just before it restarted for the first 9 years of school and 2 summer prior to school. As you can tell she played a very important part of my life. She died 30 years ago and everytime I see a yellow rose I have flashback of great memories spent with her.
Using mouse traps in the garden to scare away squirrels and rabbits. It doesn’t hurt them but it scares them and they don’t return.
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Every year recycle those fall leaves by heaping them around the base of your roses up to 12 inches high to help the roses to withstand the cold winter weather. Remove the leaves in early spring so the roses can enjoy the spring rains and summer sun.
I love these roses - the smell makes me think of my mom
Always choose plants suited to your growing zone. You just can’t expect zone 9 plants to grow well in zone 3!
Protect your beginning rose bushes from your dogs if you have them. I found out the hard way that my dog likes to eat roses. Next time I will put a barrier around it.
What a vibrant color!
Keep your pruning shears and trimmers sharpened and oiled. A clean cut ensures that your plants stay healthy.
Someone already mentioned the banana tip, but I wanted to second it!
I grind up egg shells and dig them in around the plants My roses seem to trive, bloom all the time and are gorgeous
i would love to add those rose bushes to my garden
I live in Florida with a sandy soil, so frequent watering and feeding are necessary.
Be sure to use fertilizer like Miracle Grow. It really gives plants a helping hand at growing.
Put banana peels in the soil. Roses love them.
Buy perennials and bulbs for your garden that come up every year and then add annuals to your garden for different summer colors and heights. Miracle Grow is a gold standard. As for roses baking soda on the leaves keeps bugs away. Tried and True. It’s cheap environmentally friendly.
I have a lot of frogs where I live so always try to have frogs near them to eat any bugs which may destroy them.
beautiful! I would love to have theese
I love roses but have never grown them … difficult growing and oh those aphids … but your Robusta is
very tempting to give a try.
My late father told me: “always plant your plants down in a small well so that the water doesn’t run off”.
Always grow plants that are native to your area, they do so much better.
I love roses, such a huge variety, and nothing smells sweeter.
My favorite thing to tell people who want to begin gardening but haven’t started for one reason or another is:
Don’t be afraid to get down and dirty!
Trim off the old dry rose blooms so the plant energy will go into the new rose buds.
I love roses
My best tip is to keep me far away from anything that you want to stay alive. However, my husband does a great job with plants and I am a fond admirer. Thanks!
I have rose bushes on the sunniest side of the house and they provide blooms from early spring until late summer.
mousetraps to keep away critters
my tip with roses is the watering, bone marrow prune the more attention the prettier the rose
I love Roses They are my fav.. I have one rose bush right next to a pine tree and It loves it there.
Happy Spring!
plant in a sunny spot and water in the a.m
at the base not on the leaves
use egg shells to give your roses a natural nitrogin boost.
What I do, during the winter I save our used coffee grounds, dry them on newspaper. When Spring comes and I can work in my flower beds. I mix the grounds with the soil. This gives the new flowers coming up a really good start.
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I wish I had a tip but I kill everything so I would like to have something that will grow.
I love red roses and these are marvelous!
I invested in 7 foot steel fencing posts for tomato plants and in over ten years never had to replace one or have one fall over because of storms or over wet conditions.
I wish I had one.
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My Tip for beautiful roses …
Mulching ! Add a layer 2 to 3 inches thick to your rose bed to keep the moisture in and to help keep the weeds away.:)
My tip for beautiful, healthy roses begins with COFFEE - yes, as we begin each morning with coffee, so should your roses! Roses are our friends and we should all share our morning coffee with our rose friends. An old boyfriend of mine share this with me, and it truly works, instead of throwing away your old coffee grinds, simply pat them into the soil around your rose bush roots while they are still damp. They will absorb into the soil already there and you will see in no time your rose bushes will begin to flourish!!
Sorry a green thumb I do not have
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Don’t uncover roses too early–here we need to wait until the second week in May.
My grandmother used coffee grounds around the bottom of the plant and old dishwater thrown on the leaves once a week and had outstanding roses! I learned a lot from her and have passed it on to my own kids.
After digging in any garden soil, my hands get rough and dry. Here’s my tip for the gardener: Buy yourself a tube of “Apricot Facial Scrub” (yes, even you men) and scrub your hands with it. It gets the dirt out of the cracks and leaves your hands soft and smooth.
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I would like to win some flowers to give to my girlfriend, she loves planting flowers
3 pink, 2 red and 5 yellow and two blue
I put used coffee grinds around my outdoor plants
Use a fertilizer with built in pesticide. Works wonders, and you don’t have to spray.
Before going out to pull weeds, I put vasoline on my hands and then put on my gloves. After a day of heavy pulling and weeding sometimes your gloves are wet and very dirty. When I take my gloves off, cleaning off the little dirt that got between my fingernails is very easy.
Plant fowers in memory of a loved one and they will grow strong and healthy.
My husband planted a small rose bush 5 years ago and it blossoms every year.
Incidently,My father died 5 years ago,he loved red roses and I feel his presense whenever I smell the roses.
I planted a rosebush the year my daughter was born. She’s almost 9 now and that bush is thriving, just like she is. I plant rosebushes to remember special occasions!
Beauty is the rose, regardless of the thorn.
Always take time to water, weed and feed your roses and they will reward you with beautiful blooms
Fill an empty coffee can with sand and mix in some oil. After using, clean your garden tools and store them in the sand. They’ll stay sharp and won’t rust.
My best garden tips aren’t anything new but they work. I constantly apply compost and also composted manure (from my horses) on a regular basis. Also add organic fertilizer and spray with liquid seaweed. Mulch well and water deeply at regular intervals especially in the summer. My roses are always beautiful and disease and insect free because they are so healthy.
I love roses and need these
we just moved and theres not a single rose bush here. I would love one or a dozen
I have recently moved into an old house and it has absolutely no flowers or bushes or anything. This would go a long way into making this place a home.
use compost - it works so well as nutrients for the plants
Do your research before you purchase any plants. Sun/shade, type of soil, zone, all things you should consider. If you love something - it may not love your garden and will not flourish. Buy what will work and look beautiful.