HTA-0602: Henry's Garden — Rose Care with Buzz Bertolero

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Henry's Garden segment on rose care, fertilizing, and disease treatment with garden expert Buzz Bertolero.

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Oh, look at these roses.

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Are they not gorgeous roses?

00:04
I'm telling you, my rose garden looks...

00:06
Hey!

00:07
Wait a minute.

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Over here!

00:08
What is that voice?

00:09
Over here!

00:10
What could it be?

00:11
Why, it's Buzz Bernalero hiding behind the lichness or whatever this stuff...

00:14
No, no, Buzz.

00:16
There's a reason why that rose is behind this lichness.

00:19
And?

00:19
Well, I'm hiding it there because, frankly, it was up on the deck and it looks like heck.

00:24
And so I'm giving up on it for a while.

00:27
I'm going to give up on it until next season.

00:29
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:31
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

00:33
Roses are very resilient.

00:34
With just a little bit of care,

00:36
you can get this to look just like the one

00:38
that you were just raving about.

00:40
Yeah, in about six months or...

00:41
No, no, no, no.

00:42
We can do it in...

00:43
Are you going to say no, no, no

00:44
through this entire segment?

00:46
Yes, because you're...

00:46
He said yes!

00:49
First of all, take a look.

00:50
See how the foliage should be nice, dark green?

00:52
This is...

00:52
Buzz snuck this from another plant.

00:54
Well, the one that you were raving about.

00:55
Yeah.

00:55
But you see how light green that one is?

00:57
But isn't some foliage?

00:59
Some roses have a lighter foliage.

01:01
Well, that's right.

01:02
But you can see this has more of a yellow-green cast, not a dark green cast.

01:05
Okay.

01:05
It says it's hungry, hungry, hungry.

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So we want to fertilize it.

01:08
One ham sandwich for a rose, please.

01:10
Exactly.

01:11
And you can see it even a little bit more dramatic on this variety over here.

01:13
Which we're also hiding.

01:14
Okay.

01:15
So what are we going to feed it with, Buzz Bernalero?

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Well, we have lots of choices when it comes to fertilizer.

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We can use the Miracle-Gro.

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Or something like Miracle-Gro.

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Or Miracle-Gro.

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This is water-soluble.

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You can apply it.

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This is especially good because of the color.

01:29
You'll notice that this pink color makes your roses...

01:32
No, it's not.

01:33
It's just a marketing ploy.

01:35
Or I like to use some of the time-release materials

01:37
because you only have to put on maybe one or two applications

01:39
during the entire year.

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And the way this stuff works is that over time,

01:44
it just gradually releases its useful nutrients.

01:48
That's why it's called it.

01:49
And actually, this is a new...

01:50
Hey, hey, easy there, guy.

01:51
This is a new product which we're just trying out.

01:53
It's called Dynamite.

01:54
I don't even know if you can find it.

01:55
The plasma coat is readily available, so you certainly can use that.

01:57
This one works allegedly for nine months, but obviously if it's fall, it's probably a waste of nine months.

02:03
Take care of the disease.

02:05
What are we doing?

02:05
Putting a little bit of horticultural oil on here to control the black spot.

02:09
Hey, Buzz, whoa.

02:10
Maybe we just should help people understand what this is by showing them the label.

02:14
It's all-season oil.

02:16
Any kind of a horticultural or dormant oil.

02:19
Exactly.

02:20
It can be applied even in warm temperatures.

02:21
However, I wouldn't put it on when the temperatures are really hot.

02:24
Now, one thing that Buzz is doing that I would not recommend, but what the heck do I know about roses, is you really need to pull off the diseased leaves.

02:31
But I would wait until some of the new foliage come out and then take it off.

02:34
But isn't this going to make the other leaves sick no matter what you do?

02:37
It may, because, see, these are diseases that occur when moisture sits on the leaves after the sun goes down.

02:42
So with it being a lot drier now or out of the rainy season, we should be able to kind of hedge on that.

02:47
My problem is that with hot temperatures is that this near, this naked stems are going

02:52
to burn with the heat so we don't want to take too much foliage off.

02:55
Okay.

02:56
That's my rationale.

02:57
Okay.

02:57
Well, that's a sneaky rationale to justify the fact that you don't want to be pulling

03:01
the foliage off.

03:01
Now, what is this?

03:02
Well, we had just taken two steps to solve the problem.

03:05
That was putting on the horticultural oil for diseases.

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We've also put the fertilizer on.

03:10
But we could use this product right here and do it all at one time.

03:14
This is an unpaid plug, ladies and gentlemen.

03:16
This is chemical.

03:17
I mean, this is not organic fertilizer and horticultural oil is organic.

03:23
This ain't.

03:24
This is a one step job.

03:26
It's easy.

03:26
It's one step.

03:27
You don't have to spray, you can put it on with a bucket, water it.

03:29
So how do you do it?

03:30
What do you do?

03:31
Henry.

03:32
What?

03:34
You ripped the label off.

03:35
I didn't rip the label off.

03:37
It's under...

03:39
You know what this is?

03:40
This is like the lottery.

03:41
This is the scratch.

03:43
Look, I won.

03:44
Wait a minute.

03:44
I got the other one.

03:45
Where's the other one?

03:46
Oh, here's the other one.

03:47
One of the problems with...

03:48
It's a backup one.

03:49
You know those peel-off label things like this?

03:50
Yeah, yeah.

03:51
Is that they're awful if you get them wet, which I did on that one, too.

03:55
Okay, so, you know, the most important lesson, perhaps, in this segment of Henry's Garden,

04:00
is don't let the labels get wet on silly peel-off.

04:04
All right, all right, plan C.

04:06
Message to Bayer.

04:07
Got your cell phone?

04:08
Get your cell phone?

04:08
Yeah.

04:09
Call your favorite independent garden center and ask him what the directions are.

04:12
Okay, actually, I'm gonna call Bayer and say,

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"Why are you doing this to these labels?

04:17
Can't you come up with a simpler system?"

04:17
- Okay, here's the number, 1-8-8-7-7, Bayer.

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- You can't call Bayer and they'll tell you.

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- Yeah. - Great.

04:22
Is there anything else we need to do for this poor plant?

04:25
- Water. - Lots of water.

04:26
Roses like some moisture, and with that, boom,

04:28
it's gonna explode and be fabulous.

04:32
- Not happening yet.