Common Rose Pests and Prevention

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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There are three components to keeping pests away from your roses: proper sunlight, watering, and fertilizing. Most rose plants recover from pest feeding, and most gardens already have a healthy population of beneficial insects. In this episode, Ben Hanna discusses ways to monitor and control rose pests. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4dxkPNg Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3USUEJv Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3QALxec EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3ygC6dy Learn More:How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Old Garden RosesConnect With Ben Hanna:Ben Hanna is the President and Owner of Heirloom Roses in St. Paul, Oregon, the premier nursery for own-root roses shipped directly to customers in the US and Canada. Ben’s love of roses goes back to his grandparents’ garden, and he even proposed to his wife, Kara, at the Portland International Rose Garden. Constantly expanding the company and improving systems and procedures, Ben keeps the customer’s experience and gardening success in mind. Heirloom Roses Shop Instagram Facebook YouTube Pinterest Shop the StoreAs an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When growing grows
0:13.8	grows is just like any other plan you are going to deal with some pests
0:17.9	that can make your life a little bit hard and frankly a little bit sad
0:21.4	if you don't get the bloom that you were hoping for all winter long.
0:24.4	So we have Ben Hanna back on the show. He's the president and owner of Erlen Roses up in St. Paul Oregon.
0:30.0	They are our Rose Partner for Own root roses. This is a sponsor
0:34.3	podcast week. So we talked to Ben yesterday about own root versus
0:37.8	Beirut and now let's just get into some basic rose care.
0:41.6	You know for people who don't know exactly how to prevent
0:44.8	some of these common pests, you know, honestly I haven't dealt with too many pests.
0:49.2	I've had some other issues with my roses but not specifically pests in the world of insects so I don't even
0:54.7	really know what are the common ones out there.
0:56.7	Yeah certainly I mean there's the common ones we all hear about with with
1:00.0	aphids you know people that's a kind of a normal thing.
1:03.2	There's some thrips and mites and different things.
1:05.8	All of these are common to plants that are in your garden anyway.
1:09.7	Roses, some of them, depending where you're at, they may invite them in a little bit more
1:14.4	than others but for the most part they're all pretty common things that and depending
1:19.7	on the way you want to grow your plants or they're going to be organic or you're going to use
1:23.3	some soft fungicides I think the most important thing when you're growing
1:29.6	roses to fight off the pest is to make sure you have a healthy strong growing plant.
1:34.0	That is your first line of defense. Whenever I see roses that like I'll be out for a walk with my
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