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Show Make Your Wife A Bed Of Roses roots are always kept moist. 4. Be sure to protest your roses against insect pests. A highly effective broad-spectrum insecticide which kills many chewing and sucking insect pests is Spectracide Rose And Flower Spray with Diazinon. If a long-stemmed red rose is a gift to inspire a wife's romantic fancies, think what a bed of roses would do! Go right ahead and plant one and who knows what ideas you'll also be planting in your wife's imagination? Roses are a hearty flower and not difficult to grow, so here are some tips for husbands hus-bands on nurturing the flower of love. 1. The basic requirement for growing roses is that the soil be well drained and the site receive full or partial sunlight. 2. To plant roses,-start with a hole 12 inches deep and 18 inches in diameter. Loosen the bottom soil and form a small cone of earth in the center. Carefully fan out the roots, place the bush over the cone and fill in soil over the roots to about four inches from the top of the hole. 3. Tamp firmly so that the roots are well anchored and water thoroughly. Fill the hole completely and pile the soil one or two inches up the stock of the bush. After that, fertilize your roses two or three times a year with a fertilizer that's high in phosphorus, and water them regularly so the It also controls the plant diseases of Black Spot and Powdery Mildew. Hold the can 18 to 24 inches from the foliage and cover with a light spray. 5. If you don't have a garden area outdoors, roses can be grown in containers in any spot that enjoys four to six hours of sunlight a day. When the occasion arises to present your wife with a home-grown long-stem rose, clip just above the topmost spray of fine leaves. If you achieve the desired effect, then your life, through the admiration of your wife, may become a bed of roses! |