New growth on your roses in March is a reminder that it is time to purchase fertilizer. That sounds easy enough until you face the bewildering number of choices on the nursery shelves: granular or ...

Are you getting fewer roses now? This week, you should feed them with an organic fertilizer labeled 0-10-10. This combination is no nitrogen, but high phosphorus and potassium content. It will assure ...

Here is the complete beginner’s guide to growing roses. Learn to make homemade rose fertilizer, how to site your plants and how to select cultivars. Roses are some of the most popular and beautiful ...

Organic or synthetic? Most of the confusion I see regarding organic fertilizer falls into two groups. Most questions have to do with trying to understand what the differences are, usually with an ...

If your roses are looking a little lackluster, you might not need to visit the garden center to give them a boost. A common kitchen staple, used coffee grounds, can offer surprising benefits when used ...

Here the whole ground around a rose bush is mulched with compost. At this point the compost is also watered down well. It helps to get the fertilizer, which is underneath the compost, quicker into the ...

Napa Valley rose bushes are putting out lovely new growth now and flower buds are starting to form. In some cases, two or three shoots are coming out of the same bud eye. It's best to remove all but ...

I was in the grocery store and started wondering, what am I really getting when I buy organic fruits and vegetables? What makes one onion organic, and another not? The United States Department of ...

Question: I spoke with Howard on the radio in August of 2015. My 100-plus-year-old Seven Sisters rose bush had rose rosette disease, and I was crushed. I'm the fourth generation to have this rose bush ...