Pamper Your Roses

Roses go wild this time of year. The trick is to keep them blooming all summer long. Here’s what we’re using in our own rose gardens this year:

American Pride is the time-release plant food that rose lovers swear by. It combines high-tech soluble nutrients and minerals with the long term benefits of natural ingredients like earthworm castings, bat guano, and cottonseed meal. If you want the best of both worlds, American Pride is for you.

Organic rose growers love our Peace of Mind and Happy Frog Rose Food. Both have the same great ingredients, including beneficial microbes, humic acid, and alfalfa meal, and Happy Frog comes in a handy new resealable pouch that makes it easy to store all season long. Scratch a little in and around your rose bushes and water well.

We believe in going easy when it comes to pest and disease control. It all starts with healthy plants, which is why we recommend a mulch of Happy Frog Soil Conditioner to encourage strong roots. A foliar feeding of Big Bloom liquid fertilizer can perk up plants that are feeling poorly, and a targeted spraying of Don’t Bug Me will control softbodied pests like aphid and whitefly. Most of all, we believe in getting to know your garden and preventing problems before they start. Pick off disease or infested leaves and throw them away, feed your plants well, and you’ll have bouquets of roses all summer long.