You will also notice that it takes less water and fertilizer to maintain your roses in a happy and healthy manner. You will also notice that it takes far less work to keep your roses impressing you and your neighbors. The roses you will get will be stronger, bigger, and easier to grow because you will be feeding the soil and letting the soil feed your roses. Just the way nature intended. There are several types of organic compost that are commercially available in bags at your local garden center and hoe improvement warehouse.
Many communities collect yard waste and make it available to citizens of that community.
Next time, in our final pre-spring discussion on roses we will be covering a calendar of typical rose maintenance issues at the time of year roses seem to respond best. Look for Don's book Natural Gardening A-Z from Hay House and check out Don's columns in Hearst's Healthy Living Magazine coming in March 2000.