When you're growing roses, you'll welcome rose gardening tips to help your plants grow strong. For example, you'll want to give them the type of soil and watering they need. Rather than watering often, which keeps their roots shallow, just water once a week. If their beds have plenty of rich organic material, then the soil preparation combined with about an inch of water per week will provide good ongoing rose care. These and other details about care need to be researched for specific roses, but the following are some basic guidelines.

In addition to regular watering and good soil, you'll also need proper fertilizer for whichever types of roses you have. Start around March or early April, and then do another feeding in May, and another in June or early July. The nitrogen-phosphorous-potassium ratios vary. For hybrid teas, floribundas, grandifloras, climbers and polyanthas, each bush needs half a cup with a 10-20-20 ratio for each feeding. Miniature rose bushes, on the other hand, need a slightly different combination of 1 tablespoon of 10-20-20 sprinkled the first time, then one cup of a 20-20-20 ratio of soluble fertilizer for the second and third feedings. Shrub and old garden roses only need the 20-20-20 mix in the spring, or possibly again after the first blooming. Following these tips can help the plants to grow strong.

Pruning roses is done when the plants are dormant, such as in the spring just before they start to grow again. To encourage lush growth, cut all but the healthiest stalks, leaving no more than five, and cut those remaining stalks to between 12 and 24 inches. One exception is when you first plant a rose bush, as you are encouraged to remove all new flower buds for the first two months, so the energy goes into making the plant strong. For other rose gardening tips, you need to research the different rose types you have in your garden, to find out their particular needs.

When preparing your garden for the winter, other rose gardening tips can advise you on whether or not you need to wrap the bare stalks and place mulch around the base or whether to bury the bush during the cold months. You may also start preparing roses for winter by planting in the spring, to give their roots time to develop. Tips like these are available in books, on the internet and at rose nurseries and gardens. You will have many opportunities to learn how to create a beautiful rose garden and to help it grow in a healthy way.

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