ORGANIC ROSE GARDENING GUIDE

By Pat Sheriden

Growing roses organically has become extremely popular among weekend gardeners as well as landscape professionals everywhere. If they haven’t already jumped on the band wagon, most gardeners today are learning all about natural ways to tend their plants.
Human beings have been growing roses for millennium, in almost every inhabited climate and terrain. Until the past century, they had been growing them organically with much success. When man-made pesticides and similar chemicals grew in popularity in the 20th century, many gardeners turned their backs on natural pest control and fertilization. That trend seems to be changing as many are going back to organic plant and garden care methods.

When you decide to maintain an organic garden, you decide to protect not only the roses you are nurturing, but the health and safety of your family, of the local wildlife, and of your garden and its inhabitants. Nurturing a garden organically will benefit your roses by benefitting the flora and fauna around them. The needs of roses are extremely nature-based, and they respond to natural cultivation by living longer.

Since its inception, the earth has supported its organic balance quite efficiently without any need for man-made chemicals. This natural balance gets thrown off when humans start finding “new and better” methods that add up to poisoning the natural flora and fauna. The extremely complex, fragile, and effective ecosystem that has supported earth for millions of years becomes undone by man’s meddling. The natural lifecycle loses its inherent memory for self survival, and in time becomes reliant on man-made chemicals to merely exist.

Earth Science 101 taught us that the roots feed water and nutrients to the plant body, and the greenery above ground interacts with sunlight to produce the enzymes necessary to grow and thrive. Bacteria and other naturally occurring organisms in the earth perform their own duties to contribute to a lifecycle that is far more perfect than anything invented by man.

Man made pesticides and chemical fertilizers destroy natural organisms in the garden, interrupting the relationship between the earth and your plants. When chemicals kill off the good bacteria that work to protect the roots of your plants, invasive fungi breach the vulnerability.

By learning all you can about organic rose gardening methods, you can improve the health and increase the longevity of your roses, and save yourself a lot of unnecessary expense while you’re at it.

If you’re a beginning rose grower and hope to give your garden a good organic start, your soil might need attention. Work some compost into the soil where you intend to grow your roses, or add it as the top layer of mulch to your plants. Starting a compost pile is simple, anyone can do it by incorporating everyday refuse – kitchen scraps, fish heads, animal waste, grass clippings and leaves - and allowing it to decompose in a natural stew that is perfectly suited to nourish your rose garden. Whether it’s kept in a container or tossed together in a backyard pile, stir your compost regularly to keep the level of decay consistent.

Once you establish an organic garden, stop using the man-made chemicals entirely. Natural pest control methods work most effectively, and are healthiest for your roses and your environment.

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