How To Care For Roses In Spring

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Did you think you covered the roses well in the fall, and your most important work of the year was done? Unfortunately, I have to disappoint you. Spring care for roses — uncovering and pruning — is no less important. After all, you want well-overwintered roses not to suffer in the spring, when there seems to be so little left before flowering. In addition to spring frosts, roses can be damaged by drooping, waterlogging, and soil that has erupted after winter.

So read on to take steps not to lose the well-overwintered garden queens in the spring.

Threats occurring to roses in spring

Roses can burn out. Possible reasons for this:

• the roses have been kept covered for too long,
• the roses where not properly ventilated,
• a layer of icy snow was too thick.

If the air temperature stays around 0 degrees celsius, and the roses under a thick hardened snow cover, they deplete a lot of nutrients without getting fresh air and gets weakened, that leads to fungal diseases. To prevent this from happening, it is necessary to make holes in the snow to allow air to circulate freely.

Soaked soil is another problem in spring. If the soil stays soaked for a long time, the roots may start to rot. In this case, we…