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| I did not purposefully cut my roses this spring because of the extremely difficult Spring season. My thinking was like this. I want to shape them. I decided to wait until they had their first flush; then cut back and maybe be able to shortchange the Japanese beetles for awhile. I am getting ready to prune or deadhead because I have spent blooms all over the mulch and it looks unsightly. As you cut back, do you put the prunings in a bag to burn (some of them have some blackspot and I don't spray), or do you plant the prunings, or just what do you do? Would appreciate your replies. Thanks. Barb |
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| If I'm deadheading blooms, and simply snipping off the faded bloom, I let it drop to the ground and rake it into the mulch. In my no-spray garden I do have leaves that fall on the ground from blackspot. I rake them into the ground to recycle them and use them for mulch. They rake in easily with the topsoil/mulch in the rose beds. If I'm snipping off a bit of cane with thorny stems, I put it in a trash can for the village to pick up as part of their yard waste removal service. (I don't like to leave thorny pieces of stems laying on the grass or in the mulch...) |
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| I put the spent blooms into the beds at the base of our fruit trees. They are in separate beds from the roses surrounded by low boxwood hedges. Any diseased leaves go in the trash bin. |
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| Quantity of roses now dictates that prunings are left where they fall. I do ensure though, that if I prune unhealthy growth (e.g. rust, PM, sawfly damage) - that I remove and do not mulch. |
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| My mulch is leaves so spent roses and most of the pruned parts, except the very thorniest canes, are cut up and left under the roses. Only leaves that have rust are put in the trash. Blackspot loses its potency once it's off the rose bush so that stays on the ground too. |
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| I carry a five gallon bucket around with me when I dead head and they go into that and then into the yard waste bin for pick up. I don't like the messy look lying on the ground for one thing and I've just learned that keeping the beds cleaned up can help keep insects (like thrips!) down. If you are dead heading deep down a cane to shape a plant as you go, you can try and root the cuttings. I've done that several times and it's fun and you get bonus plants. Be careful to check to see if the rose is still patented though. It's not legal to propagate patented varieties. |
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- Posted by flaurabunda 6a, Central IL (My Page) on Tue, Jun 12, 12 at 10:08
| Psst....I believe it's the sale of propagated items that's illegal & not the propagation itself. |
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- Posted by professorroush 6A (My Page) on Tue, Jun 12, 12 at 15:45
| First, let me say that I find it most interesting that, despite what the authorities say, many of us are letting our deadheads and leaves drop into our rose bed mulch or covers. I'm with krista, harmonyp, and ingrid in that the deadheads and short prunings drop where they may. Flaurabunda and others; Uhmmm..NO. The link below, to the US Patent Office site, under the section titled Rights Conveyed by a Plant Patent, says "Grant of a patent for a plant precludes others from asexually reproducing or selling or using the patented plant."....notice that the statement uses "or", not "and" between those clauses. You have no right to propogate a patented plant whether for your own use or to sell. Think of it this way...if you buy one plant and make three plants out of it, you just denied the patent holder the income from the sale of the other two plants that you would have had to buy. |
Here is a link that might be useful: US Patent Office Plant application
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| Thank you, professor, I thought I had that right. |
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- Posted by flaurabunda 6a, Central IL (My Page) on Wed, Jun 13, 12 at 8:50
| Interesting & thank you for the clarification. I apologize for doubting you, Seil. |
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