On 29 May 2021, 11:48a, Spectre said the following...

I'm somewhat surprised. I've always found despite a reputation for requiring ef fort that roses tend to be pretty bullet proof. In the
days of my youth we had roses down the fence side of the driveway which took a belting most of the day and were studiously ignored for years. While they didn't end up the best specim ens none of them died.

I had always thought they were pretty bullet proof as well. When we lived in Wisconsin, we had roses that were ignored and just took over the entire area of the back yard. ;)

I think it is due to the really dry climate we're in now. In the summer, we are usually around 1 - 10% humidity, with very little precipitation...

If you hadn't gone to the nursery you wouldn't have found you need to water mor e, but I'd be inclined to try some cuttings of the existing
old roses. :) They take time to establish but will often grow well.

I may still try taking a cutting from the older roses. I even have a place picked out where I would plant it. :)

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On 31 May 2021, 10:24p, The Godfather said the following...

Roses also like blood meal; or you can buy the shake and fertilize specifically for "Roses." If you think you have a lot of blooms now .. wait till you fertili ze them :)

I love having all of the blooms on them, until we need to dead-head them...

I did have some fertilizer that I added this passed spring. When is the best time to do that?

As for Vegi's .. we've had horrible luck starting ours in our green
house this y ear. This entire spring has been mostly cold and overcast.

We really haven't done much with veggies while in New Mexico. One year, we did try with some raised beds, and we had SO many insects eating the plants, we couldn't keep up with them. I think they were called squash bugs or something like that.

There is an area in our back yard that I think was used as a garden at one point, but if we try using that for a garden, I'm afraid our dogs will try digging the plants up...

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I did have some fertilizer that I added this passed spring. When is the best time to do that?

Ummmmmmmm.... I forget, I always have to read the instructions when it comes to roses. However, beit right or wrong (again refer to instructions) I tend to give them the proper amount after the first blooming is complete, as I have found the heat of summer tends to deplete the nutrients you would have applied in spring. I avoid fall, as I don't want to spike growth prior to the first frost and damage the plant. Our first bloom was quite the spectacle this season, however since they've been dead headed (early junish?) I'm just now seeing tons of new stem growth (a few weeks after applying blood meal) and hoping for another round of blooms!

-tG

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On 21 Aug 2021 at 10:09a, N1uro pondered and said...

Nope but also learning and to be fair learning more in the last few years than prior when I was less interested in such things :)

You're never too old to learn :)

Today it was learning to prune roses. I got a basic 101 lesson from my wife then let a poor hapless rose that she knew could take my hacking :)

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Hey Avon;

Avon wrote to N1uro <=-

Today it was learning to prune roses. I got a basic 101 lesson from my wife then let a poor hapless rose that she knew could take my hacking
:)

Now you'll have to keep us all informed as to it's life status <G>

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On 22 Aug 2021 at 06:05p, N1uro pondered and said...

Today it was learning to prune roses. I got a basic 101 lesson from m wife then let a poor hapless rose that she knew could take my hacking :)

Now you'll have to keep us all informed as to it's life status <G>

Well I hacked at it for about 30 mins and did a lot of anguishing as to if I was giving it the correct haircut or not :)

I probably over thought it a bit to be fair :)

Tomorrow it gets a proper haircut with the expert barber in our house.

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Hello Avon;

Avon wrote to N1uro <=-

Tomorrow it gets a proper haircut with the expert barber in our house.

It's a good thing I don't prune flowers. If I gave them haircuts as I do my own they'd be shaven down to the soil :)

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On 23 Aug 2021 at 09:05p, N1uro pondered and said...

It's a good thing I don't prune flowers. If I gave them haircuts as I
do my own they'd be shaven down to the soil :)

I can do similar things with my lawnmower set to a low catcher setting :)

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Hey Avon;

Avon wrote to N1uro <=-

I can do similar things with my lawnmower set to a low catcher setting
:)

I have a couple of dead trees I wish I could do that to. They're just a bit
too big.

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