Irrigation for Roses

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Keeping your roses well watered is key to having strong, healthy plants that produce show-worthy flowers. Learn how to in today’s show. Connect With Beth Van Boxtel: Beth van Boxtel is a full-time realtor in San Diego, but grows roses when she’s not doing real estate, with 120+ varieties in her backyard. She’s a member of the San Diego Rose Society. She’s a rising star with the American Rose Society and a certified consulting rosarian. Follow Beth on Instagram Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello again everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast.
0:16.4	This is our final episode on Rose Week with Beth Van Boxdoll, a full time realtor here
0:21.4	in San Diego.
0:22.6	She is the person who got me into roses.
0:25.4	She's got 120 plus varieties in her backyard.
0:28.6	And she's a rising star with the American Rose Society.
0:31.7	It is an award that has given out to only a few people in the country every year, so it's
0:35.0	really cool.
0:36.0	Also a certified consulting Rosarian, Beth, you've mentioned a few times to me that you
0:40.6	really wanted to talk about how to irrigate roses properly.
0:45.3	Like I mentioned yesterday, I don't even have irrigation on my entire property, let
0:49.5	alone my roses.
0:50.7	And so I'm really curious how you've done this because I kind of am leaning towards
0:55.0	that curve strip becoming a rose garden at some point in the future, and I'll definitely
0:58.9	need to know how to irrigate it if that's the case.
1:01.3	Sure, so good question.
1:03.6	My favorite method of irrigation is becoming one of the more popular ones among expert rose
1:09.6	growers, and it's easy, anyone can do it.
1:13.1	If you take a drip line, just a black tube hose, and say it's about a quarter to half an
1:21.3	inch, you don't want it to be too big.
1:24.3	That's going to be your main line, and then off with that main line, wherever there's
1:29.2	a rose, you're going to connect it with a new rose tube, and then it's going to go in
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