Any way or any thing to keep the rose bushes beautiful and kill weeds and grass.
2007-08-18 10:25:09 · 6 answers · asked by Alma M 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Sound like the perfect job for a torch weeder/ they are cheap and work exceptionally well. For some reason they are used a lot in Europe but have not caught on here just yet. They work great.
2007-08-18 15:07:04 · answer #1 · answered by Jason F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Long term weed control. I have Weed-x cloth around my roses and it has grass on both sides of the area. I had a bunch of weeds at first but this fabric works great! It's been about 5 years and the fabric is still weed-free and no weeds and no grass are growing through the mulch (I used about 2 inches of pine bark) and my roses are really healthy! I bought my weed-x @ Wal-mart and it's less trouble than some other landscape fabrics available. The problem w/ black plastic is that it can prevents water from getting to you roots and could harm your plant. Newspaper works okay for a while but doesn't last long and weeds come back. I just covered the weeds w/ the fabric and secured with the staples- didn't use roundup or anything.
2007-08-19 03:52:02 · answer #2 · answered by l.lynne 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have to pull out the weeds/grass by hand. Using a weed killer could kill your rose bushes. After you clean around them, you can use a weed barrier (a strong fibery cloth found in Lowes, Home Depot, etc. that will allow water to still reach your roots). Be careful of the plastic kind, it rots & some weeds grow straight through it. After you use the barrier, place a couple of inches of a wood mulch around the bushes. It helps retain the water on the root system. Roses like to be fed and watered too! =)
2007-08-19 04:47:34 · answer #3 · answered by acksherly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pull out what you can, lay down a large circle of black plastic or several layers of newspaper around the bush, cover with mulch. Anything under the plastic and papers should not come back.
2007-08-18 11:47:19 · answer #4 · answered by sjdelp 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dig them out by hand... that is about it... or if you have too large an area, put down "weed matting" and cover the whole area with 4-6" of mulch.
2007-08-18 10:29:33 · answer #5 · answered by NY PTK 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pull them out, hoe them out, dig them out and if your Very careful you can use roundup spray to kill the weeds and grass
2007-08-18 10:33:36 · answer #6 · answered by Jan Luv 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋