This Rose Society UK book gives the reader more information about many different pests and diseases with colour pictures and proposed treatments. This book describes only the major pests affecting roses, whilst there are many chemical products on the market the Rose Society UK encourages environmentally friendly products. I always mulch roses with good quality homemade compost or manure after any other fertilisers are added in the spring. These fertilisers will vastly improve the performance of your roses and eliminate most disease issues.”

A 1 litre bottle should provide 30-40 applications to a single rose plant in a 7”x9” pot 45cm high and 40cm wide I feed my roses annually with a granular feed like national growmore, tonk’s rose feed or fish blood and bone,” shares David Allison from the NSALG. Our Sulphur Rose formulation is easy and convenient to use, simple sprinkle the Sulphur Rose directly into water, stir and applyI replenish this mulch each spring, on the surface of the soil or on top of the growing medium in containers. Simply add 10ml of Uncle Tom’s Rose Tonic to 1lt of water and apply as a drench or rose spray – contains potassium phosphite fertiliser, free from additives, wetters and dyes. When roses are growing in the soil, they can tap into the resources present in the soil in which they grow since, thanks to mycorrhizae, they can draw on nutrients even beyond their own root systems. Applying Sulphur rose will ensure your roses remain healthy and produce a fabulous display of flowers all summer long. Simply apply to the stems, foliage and surrounding soil.

I write with an endorsement for your product known to me as Farm-Fos-44, but now on sale to the public as Uncle Tom's® Rose Tonic. This will be my 8th year of use. As a Rose Breeder and a countryside lover I try to be as environmentally friendly as humanly possible and only use products that I feel will be safe.

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We can maintain healthy soil by disturbing it as little as possible, protecting it with living roots, ground cover and mulches, and, of course, by gardening organically at all times. Feeding Roses Growing In The Ground Amateur gardeners now have the opportunity to benefit from the simple power of potassium phosphite, a nature-identical plant food. For several years now, it has been widely used by professional growers and the results have prompted recommendations from many of the leading members of the rose breeding and growing industry.

Those in containers will require more work and are typically provided with a liquid plant feed every second week from the middle of spring to late summer. Why You Should Fertilise Roses What’s more, roses themselves may suffer or fail to thrive due to over-feeding with synthetic fertilisers. This photo shows just how much difference regular feeding makes. Both ‘ Frilly Cuff’ roses were pruned at exactly the same time and to the same height, but the big difference is that one has been fed fortnightly, whereas the other one hasn’t been fed at all. As you can see the plant that received a regular feed is much bigger, healthier and is bursting with buds. Many feeds are available, but the one we w ould most recommend is Uncle Tom’s Rose Tonic, which we used for this demonstration. Uncle Tom’s Rose Tonic will not only encourage strong healthy growth but will also increase disease resistance. Control can be left to nature with birds and other insects like parasitic wasps feeding off them or the onset of cooler weather or wet and windy conditions which greenfly don’t like.

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Often, feeding roses more than once a year is recommended, but if your soil is healthy, it is generally only necessary to feed once a year in the spring by sprinkling organic fertiliser around the base of the plants. These can sadly often do more harm than good and are a poor choice for wildlife and the environment. The fortnightly feed for roses before buds form should be a general-purpose, relatively balanced organic liquid fertiliser, such as compost tea. The other thing that’s really worth thinking about is applying a tonic. Now, this one is called Uncle Tom’s Rose Tonic and it’s really brilliant for roses, but it’s also good for shrubs as well. Dilute it – you take off this screw cap here and then you squeeze the canister to fill up the little reservoir; and that gives you a measured dilution It will provide nutrients to the roots as it decomposes, act as a weed suppressant and help to retain moisture in the soil.”