Feed roses a little garlic mixed with soy sauce, and they will bloom more and bigger.

Grandpa Wang next door is a gardening enthusiast. Recently he has become obsessed with roses, and the flowers he grows are bigger than one another. The news spread throughout the neighborhood, and his doorstep is nearly worn down by visitors. Everyone wants to see these beautiful roses and steal a few tips.

This elderly man lives alone. His wife passed away a few years ago, and his only daughter is married and has her own family. After retiring, he had nothing to do, so he started growing flowers, and as he kept at it, he developed real expertise. He said: Every time I look at these flowers, it feels like I am looking at my daughter. I raise them all like daughters. Speaking of growing roses, it is actually simple, just two magic ingredients: garlic and soy sauce.

Grandpa Wang said garlic has a sterilizing effect. Roses are prone to illness, and when they get sick, they do not bloom well. Especially in the south, where summers have a lot of rain, roses easily get black spot disease after being rained on. So he feeds his roses garlic three times a month, and they stay strong and healthy. Crush the garlic, add a little clean water, seal and ferment for about 10 days, then take it out and dilute with water at a 1:50 ratio, put it in a spray bottle, and spray it along with watering. This method is very effective for preventing and treating black spot disease in roses.

However, for roses to bloom well, one more ingredient is needed. He took out a bowl of something dark, and we saw it was soy sauce. Grandpa said this is not ordinary "soy sauce," but a special organic nutrient solution for roses, fermented from sugarcane molasses, with a faint sweet taste. Using this can promote blooming. This organic nutrient solution can be used not only for root drenching but also for spraying leaves, which gives better absorption. It is highly concentrated, and one large bottle can last more than half a year.

Besides that, you also need to tidy up the roses occasionally, such as dead branches and leftover branches. After the flowers finish blooming, he cuts them all off together. That is why every time you see them, it is always the ones with especially good blooms. Grandpa Wang said that if you do not cut off the spent flowers, they will steal nutrients. Dead branches and weak branches do not grow well, and cutting them off can also prevent pests and diseases.

The roses in my home always have just a single lonely bloom, and recently they even caught black spot disease. So this is how roses should be grown.