Digging out/replacing roses

azzabazza

I am going to dig out some very straggly patio roses from a garden border. I am going to purchase new roses in the spring to replace.

Will I still need to plant the new roses in new soil when I do this in about 6 months? I know that should I replace them now I would need to plant using new soil.

Jue_xx

I think that rose sickness chemicals can linger in the soil for 2 years or more, so you would need to replace the soil after only 6 months. Could you move some soil from another part of the garden?

azzabazza

Jue_xx wrote: »

I think that rose sickness chemicals can linger in the soil for 2 years or more, so you would need to replace the soil after only 6 months. Could you move some soil from another part of the garden?

Thanks. I think to be on the safe side when I plant the new roses I will fill in with new top soil.

sobie

best way is plant them in a cardboard box, then bury the box. the box will degrade slowly (improving the soil as it does) and the new soil won't contact the old soil. Hopefully within the couple of years it takes the box to rot, the chemical signals will have gone from the soil.
Hope that makes sense.

azzabazza

sobie wrote: »

best way is plant them in a cardboard box, then bury the box. the box will degrade slowly (improving the soil as it does) and the new soil won't contact the old soil. Hopefully within the couple of years it takes the box to rot, the chemical signals will have gone from the soil.
Hope that makes sense.

That's a new one on me but sounds logical. I have heard that some people line the bottom of the hole with damp newspapers.

Jnelhams

Now once upon time there was a product that would solve this problem for you perfectly, it was based on a soap and the company that made it was quite small and then a long came a big bad Ogre called European Union and it insisted they pay £3 million quid to prove that Soap is safe to use... So the little company stopped selling Armillatox in the EU as a Garden Pesticide, and instead have to sell it for use only as a cleaner in the EU..... now if you lived outside the EU you could use it quite safely on the soil where your Roses had been and it would work wonderfully.

Of course in the European Union it would be very naughty to break their rules and I would not do that....