| Growing roses organically has become extremely | | | | Earth Science 101 taught us that the roots feed water |
| popular among weekend gardeners as well as | | | | and nutrients to the plant body, and the greenery |
| landscape professionals everywhere. If they haven't | | | | above ground interacts with sunlight to produce the |
| already jumped on the band wagon, most gardeners | | | | enzymes necessary to grow and thrive. Bacteria and |
| today are learning all about natural ways to tend their | | | | other naturally occurring organisms in the earth |
| plants. | | | | perform their own duties to contribute to a lifecycle |
| Human beings have been growing roses for millennium, | | | | that is far more perfect than anything invented by |
| in almost every inhabited climate and terrain. Until the | | | | man. |
| past century, they had been growing them organically | | | | Man made pesticides and chemical fertilizers destroy |
| with much success. When man-made pesticides and | | | | natural organisms in the garden, interrupting the |
| similar chemicals grew in popularity in the 20th century, | | | | relationship between the earth and your plants. When |
| many gardeners turned their backs on natural pest | | | | chemicals kill off the good bacteria that work to |
| control and fertilization. That trend seems to be | | | | protect the roots of your plants, invasive fungi breach |
| changing as many are going back to organic plant and | | | | the vulnerability. |
| garden care methods. | | | | By learning all you can about organic rose gardening |
| When you decide to maintain an organic garden, you | | | | methods, you can improve the health and increase the |
| decide to protect not only the roses you are nurturing, | | | | longevity of your roses, and save yourself a lot of |
| but the health and safety of your family, of the local | | | | unnecessary expense while you're at it. |
| wildlife, and of your garden and its inhabitants. Nurturing | | | | If you're a beginning rose grower and hope to give |
| a garden organically will benefit your roses by | | | | your garden a good organic start, your soil might need |
| benefiting the flora and fauna around them. The needs | | | | attention. Work some compost into the soil where you |
| of roses are extremely nature-based, and they | | | | intend to grow your roses, or add it as the top layer of |
| respond to natural cultivation by living longer. | | | | mulch to your plants. Starting a compost pile is simple, |
| Since its inception, the earth has supported its organic | | | | anyone can do it by incorporating everyday refuse - |
| balance quite efficiently without any need for | | | | kitchen scraps, fish heads, animal waste, grass |
| man-made chemicals. This natural balance gets thrown | | | | clippings and leaves - and allowing it to decompose in |
| off when humans start finding "new and better" | | | | a natural stew that is perfectly suited to nourish your |
| methods that add up to poisoning the natural flora and | | | | rose garden. Whether it's kept in a container or tossed |
| fauna. The extremely complex, fragile, and effective | | | | together in a backyard pile, stir your compost regularly |
| ecosystem that has supported earth for millions of | | | | to keep the level of decay consistent. |
| years becomes undone by man's meddling. The | | | | Once you establish an organic garden, stop using the |
| natural lifecycle loses its inherent memory for self | | | | man-made chemicals entirely. Natural pest control |
| survival, and in time becomes reliant on man-made | | | | methods work most effectively, and are healthiest for |
| chemicals to merely exist. | | | | your roses and your environment. |