HTA-0638: Henry's Garden — Early Season Rose Care

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Henry and Buzz tackle early season rose care: pruning, feeding, and disease prevention.

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Speaker 1
00:01
Ooh, fungus on my rose!

Speaker 1
00:04
Time for anti-fungal spray!

Speaker 2
00:06
No, no, no, no, no, no!

Speaker 2
00:07
Yes, anti-fungal!

Speaker 2
00:08
Take it away from him, bud.

Speaker 1
00:09
Why do I have the feeling that I'm doing the wrong thing here?

Speaker 1
00:13
All right, kibitzers, what am I doing wrong?

Speaker 1
00:16
This rose is full. Look at this.

Speaker 1
00:18
It's full of fungus.

Speaker 1
00:19
It looks terrible.

Speaker 2
00:21
It's rust.

Speaker 2
00:22
You know what, Henry? Here's the thing.

Speaker 2
00:24
This rose is surrounded by foliage.

Speaker 2
00:28
It's got a sprinkler right on it.

Speaker 2
00:30
We're just going to clean it up a little bit, thin it out.

Speaker 1
00:32
- Oh, that'll solve the problem?

Speaker 2
00:33
- Well, you want to start with the least invasive.

Speaker 2
00:37
- Speaking of least invasive.

Speaker 2
00:39
- The least invasive method of treatment first.

Speaker 2
00:42
- Out of the way, out of the way.

Speaker 2
00:44
- So what I would do with this rose

Speaker 2
00:49
is I would thin it out a little bit.

Speaker 2
00:51
See how you've got growth coming

Speaker 2
00:52
right in the center of the plant, right through the middle?

Speaker 2
00:55
So I just cleaned this out so that it could have some air running through it.

Speaker 1
01:00
One of the secrets of keeping fungus down, and Buzz, you're doing a heck of a job there.

Speaker 1
01:04
One of the secrets of keeping fungus down is keeping air circulating and avoiding letting moisture in.

Speaker 1
01:10
So that's the solution, right?

Speaker 3
01:12
No, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3
01:13
It's part of the solution.

Speaker 1
01:15
No? Okay, Buzz, what's your solution, big guy?

Speaker 3
01:17
If you only had one row, you could put all this time and energy into it.

Speaker 3
01:20
but because this is such a underperforming variety

Speaker 3
01:23
and one that tends to sit there and does this every year

Speaker 3
01:26
as far as having rust and all the other diseases.

Speaker 3
01:29
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, dig it out!

Speaker 3
01:32
And get rid of it.

Speaker 3
01:33
- Are you helping? - And plant a new one.

Speaker 1
01:35
- Bring me, bring back that one just a minute.

Speaker 3
01:36
- Get a new one in here.

Speaker 3
01:38
There's so many new varieties.

Speaker 3
01:40
There's so many disease resistant varieties.

Speaker 3
01:43
- I'm sending him to your garden.

Speaker 1
01:45
- Nevermind, nevermind.

Speaker 1
01:47
Okay, well you've solved that problem.

Speaker 1
01:50
- Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1
01:50
- Now we can't even demonstrate things like fertilizing,

Speaker 1
01:53
or trimming, or no, just leave it, Buzz.

Speaker 1
01:55
- Come on, Chase. - Just forget it.

Speaker 1
01:57
Okay, there's another rose over here

Speaker 1
01:59
that's doing much better, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 1
02:01
Don't, hey, get rid of that thing.

Speaker 2
02:03
- Oh, Buzz, look at you.

Speaker 1
02:05
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1
02:06
- Now, this is a rose bush.

Speaker 1
02:08
- Yeah.

Speaker 1
02:08
- This has got some vigor.

Speaker 1
02:10
- There are a couple of problems in here, okay?

Speaker 1
02:11
Just for starters, can you see, Art,

Speaker 1
02:14
can you see that little, that spit,

Speaker 1
02:16
see that stuff right there?

Speaker 1
02:18
So right away, I got a problem right there.

Speaker 3
02:20
- Well, it's the frog hopper.

Speaker 1
02:21
- Yes, the dreaded frog hopper, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 3
02:23
It hops on your nose.

Speaker 3
02:24
- Or also known as the spittle bug,

Speaker 3
02:25
and we see a lot of it starting to show up now

Speaker 3
02:27
in the gardens, and really what we do is nothing.

Speaker 3
02:31
Doesn't hurt anything.

Speaker 3
02:32
Wash it off, just live with it.

Speaker 3
02:34
It was short term, maybe about three or four weeks,

Speaker 3
02:37
but you don't need to spray anything.

Speaker 1
02:39
- Okay, so that's no problem.

Speaker 1
02:40
However, we do have a little bit of rust in here.

Speaker 1
02:45
- Once again, Henry, it's a problem.

Speaker 1
02:48
- You pulled it already, Kimmy?

Speaker 2
02:48
- No, no, right here, right here.

Speaker 2
02:50
It's a problem of air circulation.

Speaker 1
02:52
- And that's gonna get worse as the season goes on.

Speaker 2
02:54
This is very early in the season.

Speaker 2
02:55
- Unless you clean out all this growth

Speaker 2
02:59
that's coming through the center of the plant.

Speaker 2
03:01
You wanna keep the center of the plant open.

Speaker 1
03:03
- Okay, so this is the essential lesson

Speaker 1
03:06
in how to thin a rose to keep it healthy, okay?

Speaker 2
03:11
- This is early season rose care.

Speaker 1
03:13
- Yes, okay, so now, Kimmy.

Speaker 1
03:15
- Yes?

Speaker 1
03:16
I have the pruners.

Speaker 2
03:17
I have the pruners.

Speaker 1
03:19
I may demonstrate.

Speaker 1
03:20
Go to work.

Speaker 1
03:21
I have none.

Speaker 1
03:22
That's right, because we don't trust you.

Speaker 1
03:24
On your mark, get set, go.

Speaker 1
03:26
So first of all...

Speaker 2
03:28
So Henry, I just want to take stuff out that's crossing through the center of the plant.

Speaker 2
03:33
And see how you can't even see in here?

Speaker 1
03:35
Yeah, that's the big problem.

Speaker 2
03:36
This is all inhibiting the air circulation.

Speaker 2
03:39
Go ahead and cut that back.

Speaker 2
03:40
I'm going to help here.

Speaker 2
03:40
You help, but it's got to be cut close to the...

Speaker 1
03:43
You don't want to leave any hat racks like that.

Speaker 2
03:45
See, already, already we're taking, we're doing a good thing for this plant.

Speaker 1
03:50
Oh, by the way, something else.

Speaker 1
03:52
Here, can I do that for you?

Speaker 1
03:53
Do that, please.

Speaker 1
03:54
By the way, when it comes to pruning roses, please take good care to get rid of this stuff.

Speaker 1
04:01
Because if you leave it on the ground, it will promote fungus growth.

Speaker 1
04:05
Right, Blast?

Speaker 1
04:05
Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 3
04:06
Yeah, cleaning of debris underneath roses is a prime thing.

Speaker 3
04:09
It should be done early in the season.

Speaker 2
04:11
Here's another one, Henry, going right to the side.

Speaker 2
04:14
Excuse me, I'm talking.

Speaker 2
04:16
Here's another one going right to the center.

Speaker 2
04:18
There we go.

Speaker 1
04:19
Well, I'm glad to see that somebody knows how to treat buzz.

Speaker 2
04:22
Well, you know, he just gets out of control.

Speaker 1
04:23
I'm going to get these low ones down here.

Speaker 2
04:25
There, perfect.

Speaker 2
04:25
Now, see, we're opening this up.

Speaker 2
04:27
We're pulling out any weeds.

Speaker 2
04:28
Wait a minute.

Speaker 3
04:29
Wait a minute.

Speaker 3
04:29
We've got a big hole there.

Speaker 2
04:30
That's all right.

Speaker 2
04:31
A hole is good.

Speaker 2
04:31
A hole means air.

Speaker 2
04:32
I've got a question for you.

Speaker 2
04:33
Yes.

Speaker 2
04:34
Is this one plant?

Speaker 3
04:35
No, Henry, it's three plants.

Speaker 3
04:37
Oh, for goodness sake.

Speaker 3
04:38
And what we're trying to do is to basically have one canopy with three different stems.

Speaker 1
04:44
Okay, so one of the lessons, ladies and gentlemen, that we've just learned here is don't plant your roses close together because that's one of the problems.

Speaker 3
04:51
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's not the lesson, Henry. You can plant your roses close together.

Speaker 3
04:56
You just sister and thin the canopy as one, not as individual bushes.

Speaker 3
05:01
So you're just taking it from the wrong perspective.

Speaker 3
05:02
Okay, so, you know.

Speaker 1
05:04
Buzz, Buzz, just a second. Here's the point. You want everything growing sort of up almost parallel like a hand.

Speaker 3
05:11
No, you want it growing away from the center of the plant.

Speaker 3
05:14
And because you've got three main stems, you've got three focal points that you're trying to sit there and prune the growth away from.

Speaker 1
05:20
He's so disagreeable.

Speaker 1
05:21
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1
05:22
But what we've done is we've opened this up nicely.

Speaker 1
05:25
No, you created a big hole.

Speaker 1
05:28
So, Buzz, this is not the way you would have left it.

Speaker 1
05:30
No, I would have left it alone.

Speaker 2
05:31
Why?

Speaker 3
05:32
Because I would have done all that as much as I could during the winter month when it was dormant.

Speaker 3
05:35
And then what comes the rest of the year...

Speaker 2
05:37
Where were you when it was raining?

Speaker 2
05:39
Okay, excuse me.

Speaker 3
05:40
I was inside.

Speaker 3
05:40
Excuse me just a minute.

Speaker 1
05:41
All right.

Speaker 1
05:42
So we're gonna continue this segment later,

Speaker 1
05:45
but for now, Kimmy--

Speaker 3
05:47
Disagreeing, I should say that later.

Speaker 1
05:48
Yes, Henry.

Speaker 1
05:49
Using more flowery language.

Speaker 1
05:50
Buzz, please.

Speaker 1
05:52
Here's a bud for you.

Speaker 1
05:55
Oh, thank you.

Speaker 1
05:56
Here's a weed for you.

Speaker 1
05:57
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1
06:11
Both.