Elena999 said: Have a random question, do not want to open a new topic. Does anybody practicing to plant roses in mud? I have learned about two ways planting roses:
1) create a soil cone, place the rose on top, add soil
2) in the hole add soil with compost about 1/3 of the hole, place the rose a watering the hole to create mud, add soil and watering again.
Would like to hear any opinions?😎
I've done it this way, I've also barely plunked a rose in hole. What I can say is the size of the hole matters most if you have clay like me. Clay turns into wonderful soul once it's amended. Like butter .. I've got 4 roses in the rose icu on my deck because I didn't go deep enough and the area was not amended, and I overestimated the roses vigor to bust through the clay. Betty boop, heritage and Jude the obscure and the fairy. They were languishing and I dug them up to see why.. they never breached my original hole because the clay was to thick.
This mudding in method only works well if your hole drains well. I used to be a proper rosarian and dig a massive hole and do a drain test to see if it held to much water and then amend with worm castings and leaf litter and eggshells. When I replant the abused roses I'll be nicer to them lol
