Gardening.

TheReview Wednesday, February 27,1991 — A16

Nasty job pruning rose bushes

Yesterday, since the sun was
shining, and there were no particu-
larly nasty black clouds anywhere
around, I decided to spray the fruit
trees, a job I would avoid if I
could.

Anyway it 1s now done, not -

perfectly, since the sprayer doesn’t
have enough force to get to the tree
tops, but reasonably well, and lam
grateful to have it over with, for
this year.

Since I had extra Dormant spray
I also did the roses, which I had
pruned several days ago.

Rose-pruning is a job for
masochists, not nice people like
us! Have you EVER pruned your
roses, and not come inside sucking
on several lethal wounds, nursing a
few unsightly scratches (one
across the bridge of your nose) and
weeping quietly because you have
just torn your husband’s favorite
golfing shirt?

For this task you will require
really sharp secateurs (clean cuts

O’Ki gets help

A Sidney fishing equipment
supplier is among 260 small B-C
firms that have received govern-
ment help to reach export markets,
Saanich and the Islands MLA Mel
Couvelier said last week.

The B.C. Minister of Finance

said O’Ki Tackle Manufacturing
Ltd. received $900 in provincial
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gram.
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heal more quickly); a basket, or
some such thing to hold the prun-
ings; your heaviest gardening
gloves; a jacket to protect your
arms; and some idea of just what
you are going to do to your roses.

Reasons for pruning roses are: to
keep them within reasonable
bounds; to remove dead wood, and
crossed branches; to encourage an
open shrub which will allow sun-
light to enter, and air to circulate
through it; and to foster strong new
growth, and lots of flowers!

Before you actually start prun-
ing, cut back all tall branches to
about three feet, so that you’ll have
more room to work in. Next cut
out all dead limbs ... they are easy
to recognize, being gray and some-
times marked with dark sick-
looking spots.

Cut these off, right back to
healthy wood, just ABOVE an
outward facing leaf-node. Now get
tid of any skinny pale green
shoots, cutting them right back to
their origin. Cut out the weakest of
any crossed branches.

All this should open up the
centre of your shrub. Now reduce
all old growth to about 18 inches

in height, always making your cut
just ABOVE that outward facing
leaf-node. And that’s IT, thank
Heaven!

Now, clear up all refuse, includ-
ing as many old dead rose leaves
as you can see, and, if possible,
burn them. Don’t put any of this
stuff in the compost pile!

Roses should now be given a
dormant spray (lime sulfur and
oil) and when that is done they
may be fertilized with about a
half-cup of 6-8-6 (or 13-16-0)
sprinkled over an area perhaps
three feet in diameter under each
one.

An alternative, if you have com-
post available, would be to give
each shrub several shovelsfull,
covering the above-mentioned
three-foot area about two-three
inches deep.

In about a week you might care
to do something I have tried with
considerable success. I make a
solution of Benlate (Benomyl) and
water, and heavily spray both the
roses and the ground under them,
really drenching the whole area.

I won’t claim we completely
avoided black-spot and mildew,
but I'm sure this early treatment
with fungicide helped considera-
bly!

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