Get More Blooms From Your Roses

With roses over here you want to fertilize them about once a month so that they continue to bloom. You also want to deadhead them. All these are just blooms that have faded away and fallen and ideally I would like to deadhead them as they are continuing to bloom so that they will never really go out of bloom. But I've been so busy and I wanted to do this with you guys just to kind of share some information with you. So I like to use organic fertilizer because it's going to feed the soil not just the plant. This is tree tone. I kind of rotate in between tree tone, plant tone, polytone, all of the tones. Whatever I have on hand I just use it and they all work great. And I just go around the perimeter of the plant. I don't even scratch it in because I'm just trying to do so much at the same time. And I just do that for all of the roses. I just want to make sure there's a ring of fertilizer around them. Then I water them after that. Right now we're going to tackle deadheading the roses. This is super easy. All you have to do is just go down to a leaf node that has five leaves on it and cut the rose the bloom head back to a leaf that has five leaf nodes on it. When you do that it's going to encourage the roses to put on new blooms. Here's a better close-up to what I'm talking about right here. This is a five leaf node right here. One, two, three, four, five. But the blooms are already coming out from it. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go down to the one under it. This basically five or more leaves. This one has seven leaves on it and I can see that there's a little tiny bud coming out from above the leaf or where the leaf is coming out from. So I'm just going to cut right above it. Here's what I'm talking about. See that little bud right there? This is what we want. So we are going to take our shears and cut right above this leaf node. Like that. And now this little bud right there is going to grow and produce new blooms because roses grow on new, on new, roses bloom on new growth. One more thing that I forgot to mention is that you want to choose an outward facing bud to prune it at because you want, you don't want the new growth to go towards the shrub on the inside. You can also choose ones that will make it look nicer. And there we go. Now there was a bud right here but this is all dead and ugly and it's just a little one. If I cut it back like this, that's going to force it to create it, create better and bigger blooms. I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I hope it was helpful and inspirational. I'll see you again in the next video. If you are new here, don't forget to hit that subscribe button and the bell to receive notifications of whenever I upload new videos. I garden in zone 5B, 6A, New Hampshire, just for reference if you are wondering. Bye!