"Happy" roses yield larger and more colorful blooms, while over-watered roses tend to appear as sodden as they feel.
Roses both "like" and require regular watering in order to flourish. However, simply watering your rose bushes heavily is not enough to keep your roses happy and healthy. You must also insure that the soil around the plants is suitable to this type of watering. If the soil does not drain effectively or holds too much of the water and nutrients, then your enthusiastic care taking can actually lead to roses with rotting roots, diseased roots and shoots and other problems related to stagnating water.
Instructions
Water Roses to Prevent Root Rot
1. Analyze your soil type.Different types of soil hold moisture differently. For example, roses planted in sandy soils need higher volumes of water because a great deal of the water drains away because the soil is not very compact. On the other hand, soils that have high levels of clay require less water because the water does not seep away as easily.
2. Water around the base of the plant. Not only does this help prevent diseases that can result from wet, humid or mildewed leaves, but watering at the base of the plant also helps keep the water from washing away insecticides, fungicides and top-layer fertilizers.
3. Keep the water pressure low. If you blast your roses with water, you run the risk of washing away the soil, fertilizer and nutrients from around the base of the plant. Effectively, if you use high water pressure you are ruining the rose bush's room and board in one fell swoop. Instead, use a gentle trickle of water to saturate the ground around the plant, but do not create craters or mud.
4. Cover a drip or soaker hose with mulch. By running the hose by all of your bushes, then covering it with mulch you will be able to turn the hose on and then allow the water to seep through the soil at a slow, gentle pace. This will insure steady watering rather than bursts of high volumes that cannot be absorbed by the soil followed by times of near-drought.
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