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In autumn, nature is preparing to go to sleep. In plants, the movement of juices slows down, foliage flies. However, for gardeners and truck farmers, autumn is a crucial time for preparing a personal plot for the next season. It is especially important to properly prepare plants that cannot stand the cold and need shelter for the winter.
Curly roses require careful care and protection. How the plants survived the winter determines their health, appearance and flowering. Even in shelter, the roses freeze or vomit. Question, how to cover curly roses for the winter, relevant for gardeners. I would like to preserve a flowering plant, indispensable for decorating walls, gazebos, arches, fences. Many gardeners refuse to grow climbing roses precisely because of the complexity of the care and preparation of the plant for winter.
Preparing climbing roses for winter in late summer - early autumn
At the end of summer, you should take some steps to prepare the climbing plant for the coming cold weather. First of all, under the climbing roses, they stop loosening the soil and reduce watering to a minimum, and then completely stop it.
Then the composition of mineral dressings is changed: nitrogen is removed in order to exclude the growth of shoots of climbing roses, which do not have time to ripen before the cold weather and are likely to die. The last dressing, carried out at the end of August, includes superphosphate (25 g), potassium sulfate (10 g), boric acid (2.5 g). All components are diluted in 10 liters of water and watered rose bushes, using 0.5 liters each.
The most effective type of feeding for climbing roses is foliar application. The plant absorbs mineral fertilizers not only with roots, but also with leaves and bark. For foliar dressing, the volume of the proposed fertilizers is reduced by 3 times. After 2 weeks, feeding the plants should be repeated.
Autumn care for climbing roses aims to end the vegetative season in the plant. Since among the many varieties of climbing roses, there are those that bloom until the very cold.
The next stage of the preparation of climbing roses will begin in mid-October. Plants are trimmed and removed from supports for subsequent shelter. The purpose of pruning is to form the crown of the plants, get abundant flowering in the coming season and keep the climbing roses healthy.
First of all, the broken and affected parts of the climbing branches are cut off, then the upper unripened part of the shoots is cut off. It usually differs in color. There is no point in leaving it, as it will freeze, first of all, and become a threat to the entire bush. Next, cut off all the leaves and the remaining flowers of the plant.
Further pruning will depend on the type of climbing rose in terms of flowering and shoots. There is a group of roses that bloom once a season on the climbing shoots of the previous year. In autumn, such shoots should be removed completely like raspberry shoots. There are young shoots that have grown in the current season (zero) and last year. You can leave 5-10 shoots.
Climbing roses, which bloom twice a season, form flowers on shoots of different ages from 2 to 5 years. The old age-old shoots of the plant gradually form fewer and fewer buds, therefore, after 5 years of life, they should be removed, leaving the youngest and strongest branches. There should be 4-10 climbing shoots in total.
It also happens that the plant forms a large number of replacement shoots, which makes it extremely difficult to care for and winter protection of climbing roses.Therefore, the number of shoots should be regulated. It may be necessary to remove many more of them, as their development will pull off a lot of nutrients, which can weaken flowering.
And the most difficult thing remains - to remove the curly stems of the plant from the support. Use gloves to protect your hands from thorns. Then you will not be distracted by annoying interference, and work will go faster. Curly roses are detached from the support by removing the fastening devices. Lay on the ground, tied together for convenience.
It is not always possible to immediately bend the plants to the ground. The branches of roses are very woody and resilient. Then the shoots in the upper part are tightly tied with a rope and gradually begin to bend. You can tie the other end of the rope to bricks or something heavy. You will simply move the bricks further away, causing the curly rose to tilt. The process can take several days.
At negative temperatures, the wood of a climbing rose becomes too fragile, it can easily break.
There should be no plant debris left in the trunk circle. They are a potential threat. Further, the rose is treated with a solution of Bordeaux liquid, iron vitriol (30 g / 10 l of water), copper sulfate (50 g / 10 l of water). After processing, the trunk circle is either spud, up to 30 cm high, or mulched with peat or compost.
In a bent position, a climbing rose can be left for 1 to 2 weeks, fixing it with hooks. Prepare the shelter ourselves.
How to make shelters for climbing roses
You will need to cover the climbing rose as soon as it settles from -5 ° C to -7 ° C. The impact of light frost is even beneficial to the plant, as it hardens it and finally brings it to a state of dormancy.
Watch a video on how to cover roses for the winter:
Method 1
Curly roses are processed and laid. So that there is no contact between the soil and the lashes, it is better to put branches of conifers or fallen leaves, boards or roofing felt between them. Gardeners offer other options for the backing: plastic bottles held together or sheets of polystyrene.
Then the arcs are installed. They can be bought ready-made, you can make yourself from metal rods or from polyethylene pipes for water supply. The materials are durable, and the arcs will last more than one year for shelter. For additional rigidity of the structure, anchoring is added along the upper points of the arcs.
Do the arcs with the expectation that they should not touch the lashes of the curly rose. It is good if there is 20-30 cm in stock.With the first frosts, covering material is pulled over the arcs: lutrasil, spunbond marked 42-60 g / sq. m in 2 layers. Attach the cover with clothespins or paper clips. It is important to secure the covering material well, since in winter there is weather with strong gusts of wind. And the cover can easily rip off.
Advantages of a shelter with arcs: it is reliable, you can make a shelter for several plants with your own hands. The meaning of such a shelter structure is that the earth gradually gives off heat, inside it creates its own microclimate, which is comfortable for wintering roses. In winter, additional protection will lie on top of the shelter in the form of a thick layer of snow.
Method 2
This method is suitable for climbing roses with flexible stems. The stems will need to be laid in a spiral. Wooden stakes or metal rods are stuck around them in a circle. Around the base, any material is attached that will hold the insulation: a mesh-netting, a metal mesh for reinforcement, thick cardboard or thin plywood, which can be bent along the diameter of the base for the shelter.
It will turn out a kind of cylinder, inside which the insulation is poured: foliage, spruce branches, sawdust, hay, etc. From above, the entire structure should be covered with agrofibre.
Advantages of the method: saving space and money, you can make a shelter with your own hands.
Other shelter materials may clog up and stop letting air through, causing the climbing roses to fizzle out.
Method 3
A shelter frame is made of the boards: along the entire length of the laid stems of roses, props 0.5 m high from thick boards are hammered into the ground. Planks of the same width as the rose garden are laid on them, fixed with nails. Long boards are laid on top of the boards at right angles to the previous ones. It turns out a lattice of boards.
Spunbond or lutrasil is pulled over such a base for a shelter, securely fixed on the sides with bricks.
The method is reliable, curly roses never freeze, snow falls on top and is not blown off the horizontal surface of the shelter, unlike the method using arcs. The disadvantages include, during thaws, the snow melts, the water does not slide, and then turns into ice. That changes the protective qualities of the structure for the worse.
Shelter for climbing roses will be much more effective if you make a slope. To do this, you just need to increase the height of the supports on one side by about 0.3-0.4 m.
Another construction of boards for sheltering climbing roses is a hut. It is made of two shields that are set at an angle. From above, boards made of boards or plywood are covered with agrofiber or film. To save material, you can make not one-piece shields, but in the form of a lattice. The ends of the hut should not be fixed securely, so that during thaws it would be possible to open them slightly for airing. The method is good because such shields can be used many times, unlike the previous method, where the structure for sheltering roses must be disassembled each time.
Conclusion
To prepare curly roses for the winter cold, proper care is required from the end of summer. Then, to the concerns of flower growers, the need to reliably cover the plants is added. When choosing a shelter, proceed from the climatic characteristics of your area.
