Gardening and Horticulture - Wild Rose Bushes
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nekky77
01-01-03, 12:31 PM
Happy New Year everyone from sunny Saskatchewan, Canada.
No site I have been to has been able to assist me with my problem so here I am asking the experts.
My mother has about a half dozen rose bushes in her back yard which have gone wild and do not flower any more. She would like to remove the bushes and start over. I have tried to dig them out with no luck. (The roots go to China, I think).
Any suggestions folks?
Thanks in advance.
Ken
No site I have been to has been able to assist me with my problem so here I am asking the experts.
My mother has about a half dozen rose bushes in her back yard which have gone wild and do not flower any more. She would like to remove the bushes and start over. I have tried to dig them out with no luck. (The roots go to China, I think).
Any suggestions folks?
Thanks in advance.
Ken
marturo
01-02-03, 02:31 PM
Hi Ken, Welcome to DIY & the Garden Forum :)
Are the Roses the Tame ones, gone wild? Are they the wild ones, Floribunda, Multiflora?
My Son & I dig everything up, that looks like a Root. Then we cover the area like even a 6 foot by 6 foot square, of 4 to 5 sheets of Tar Paper for the Summer & Mow around the Tar paper.
Roses can be tough, but one hot dry summer spent under that tar paper, kills most that we remove. A thin cover of white stone or sand, will help to preserve the tar paper from drying up and curling in the sun.
Perhaps some of the others will have some other removal tricks.
One note: Never use Sodium Cloride, I had to remove a dumptruck losd of soil from a clients backyard. She used ice cream rock salt to kill a wild rose & it killed a 20 foot circle of everything. We filled it back in with Mushroom Compost for $275.00 a truckful.
Marturo
Are the Roses the Tame ones, gone wild? Are they the wild ones, Floribunda, Multiflora?
My Son & I dig everything up, that looks like a Root. Then we cover the area like even a 6 foot by 6 foot square, of 4 to 5 sheets of Tar Paper for the Summer & Mow around the Tar paper.
Roses can be tough, but one hot dry summer spent under that tar paper, kills most that we remove. A thin cover of white stone or sand, will help to preserve the tar paper from drying up and curling in the sun.
Perhaps some of the others will have some other removal tricks.
One note: Never use Sodium Cloride, I had to remove a dumptruck losd of soil from a clients backyard. She used ice cream rock salt to kill a wild rose & it killed a 20 foot circle of everything. We filled it back in with Mushroom Compost for $275.00 a truckful.
Marturo