I've been away a few days. Work is a 4 letter word that gets in the way sometimes.
Zuzu, I am so sorry to hear of your injury, and so glad to hear that you are now on the mend..and yes, long pants might be what is needed. When I moved here 10 years ago, I found that was the only way to do it. There are way too many blackberry brambles, smilax, stinging nettle and other things that can do harm to your bare skin (not that I ever gardened in a dress anyways..I come from a time when they dropped the dresses dress code my senior year in HS)
I am luckily relatively healthy and yet aging has given me very thin skin so am always cutting myself from gardening, dog and cats nails etc. Again luckily, my immune system works very well. And now back to roses..................
I just realized today is February 12th. Down here the key date for fertilizing roses is Valentines Day. I don't look for a bouquet delivered to my door, nor a box of chocolates to indulge in. I look to find where the devil I put my rose fertilizer and good weather to get out to do it. I m trying to get a young teen over here this weekend to help with some more winter clean up and fertilizing.
I have a bucket of alfalfa pellets in the "gazebo". I'll need to get out to soak some in a bucket of water to make alfalfa tea. If I try to just put them in the ground, the fox squirrels will come and dig them up. If I do that, I will have to fill his feeder to satisfy him. I wonder if he remembers where that is?
When, please should I do the major pruning of the roses? Now?
