Detailed Explanation of Rose Planting Methods and Techniques

Choose a place suitable for rose growth to establish the garden. Before planting, disinfect the soil, mainly by steam sterilization, apply 20 cm thick farmyard manure, and plow and turn the soil. Fertilization can be done in 2 applications, respectively in late autumn and after flowering, combined with deep plowing, then fill the soil, firm it, and water. Pruning should mainly be thinning cuts, supplemented by heading cuts. For roses with weak growth, heavy pruning can be done to promote new shoots.

1. Garden Establishment and Planting

Choose a place suitable for rose growth to establish the garden. Whether in mountainous areas or plains, never plant on sticky, waterlogged land. Before planting, disinfect the soil, mainly by steam sterilization, and deep plow multiple times to avoid phytotoxicity affecting the development of the plant root system. Then apply 20 cm thick farmyard manure and plow and turn the soil. The planting row spacing is 2-2.5 m, and the plant spacing is 1-1.5 m. On plains, the row and plant spacing can be appropriately increased.

2. Watering and Fertilizing

Fertilization can be done in 2 applications. One is in late autumn, combined with deep plowing, applying 3000-3300 kg of farmyard manure per mu. The other is after flowering, combined with loosening the soil, applying 5-25 kg of diammonium phosphate or other compound fertilizer per mu. Follow the principle of watering when dry and keeping it dry when wet, and keep the soil slightly moist.

3. Timely Pruning

Pruning should be carried out according to plant age, growth condition, fertilizer and water conditions, and management conditions, adopting the principle of mainly thinning cuts, supplemented by heading cuts, so that the plant is old but the branches are not old, the branches are many but not dense, and ventilation and light transmission are achieved. Old branches over 5 years old should be thinned out in time to support the growth of new branches. For roses whose growth is weak and have basically lost the ability to bloom, heavy pruning can be done to promote new branches.