When are roses dormant

[Linda, OH]

I have read that you should place leaves, etc. around roses after they have
gone dormant, but not before. How do you know when they are dormant? I'm
in zone 6 I think.

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Linda, OH

[Bob Bauer]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 16:33:00 -0400, "Linda, OH" <soyb...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>I have read that you should place leaves, etc. around roses after they have
>gone dormant, but not before. How do you know when they are dormant? I'm
>in zone 6 I think.

Roses are dormant when they stop growing and lose their leaves. In
zone 6 you can put mulch and compost about a foot or so deep around
your bushes starting in about November 15 or so. It will not hurt
them to put the mulch on earlier.

Bob Bauer
Zone 6 in Salt Lake City.

[Alan Zelhart]

I think we sort of have to force our roses to go dormat. I prune and pull all
the leaves off, the beginning of January. Then I spray stems and ground with
fungi and insecticide. Seems to help them get a good start in February.

alan

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[Shiva]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 20:56:38 GMT, Bob Bauer
<bobb...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 16:33:00 -0400, "Linda, OH" <soyb...@yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I have read that you should place leaves, etc. around roses after they have
>>gone dormant, but not before. How do you know when they are dormant? I'm
>>in zone 6 I think.
>
>Roses are dormant when they stop growing and lose their leaves. In
>zone 6 you can put mulch and compost about a foot or so deep around
>your bushes starting in about November 15 or so. It will not hurt
>them to put the mulch on earlier.
>

Yes it will, rodents will nest in them and eat the rose roots, Bob,
you dense fuckhead.

[trevor ylisaari]

I live in OH also, I usually do mine right around Thanksgiving.
Just pick a day sometime around then, when there's no snow on the ground,
gather some leaves and pile them on your roses. I usually get the mower out
and blow all the leaves toward the rose bed. Kill 2 birds with 1 stone that
way. Get the leaves out of the yard, and help my roses through the winter.

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"Linda, OH" <soyb...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I have read that you should place leaves, etc. around roses after they
have
> gone dormant, but not before. How do you know when they are dormant?
I'm
> in zone 6 I think.
>

[Peter Pan]

Shiva a écrit dans le message <39eade4e...@torrllnews.com>...

Except, if you mulch with walnut leaves. They are very tannic, and good for
eliminating weeds as well as being disliked by rodents (so I have been
told -- anyway, all the mice seem to have left my yard and come into my
basement <g>)

Shiva, what about those ultra-sound peg-in-the-ground thingies for keeping
rodents at bay?

[Allah Akhbar]

Peter Pan wrote:

Where the dead bodies are, right?

>  
> Shiva, what about those ultra-sound peg-in-the-ground thingies for keeping
> rodents at bay?

They digging up the dead bodies too?