Tips for Watering Roses

Planting & Caring for Your Rose Garden

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Watering roses is an essential part of your rose gardening routine. Just like any living organism, roses need an adequate amount of water to survive. Being too enthusiastic and watering your roses too much will mean the rose plant roots can be starved of oxygen which will cause the leaves to turn yellow and eventually drop off. On the flip side, watering too little will stress the rose plant and cause the leaves to go limp and start sagging.

Heat will make the soil dry out faster, therefore your roses are going to need watering more frequently when it's hot outside. This means your roses need more water during the summer months than they do in the winter months. Even if it's a rainy summer, chances are your rose plants will still need to be watered, as the rain might not provide enough moisture.

You need to ensure that when you water your roses the water reaches down to the root system. This means the water needs to go approximately eighteen inches deep into the soil. When you originally planted your rose plants, the hole you dug for planting was probably fifteen to eighteen inches deep. If you do not water the plant enough, the water will not soak down to this depth and will cause the roots to grow upwards to reach the water. Your rose plant roots may then be prone to weather damage and overly enthusiastic cultivation.

Rose plants require about two inches of water per week. In nature this water falls as rain, so don't be scared to use an overhead watering system, just make sure you water your rose plants early enough in the day or evening so that the leaves will be dry before night falls. If the leaves stay wet for too long, fungal diseases are encouraged and these are much easier to prevent than to treat after they have occurred.

Once your plants are well established, you'll only need to water your roses once a week. During very hot months, however, your roses will definitely need to be watered twice a week.