How Do You Prep Soil For Planting Roses?
Rose bushes add romance and formality to just about any backyard garden. With their thorny stems and intricately layered buds, they are ideal for picking and placing in a vase indoors. Their fragrance has been the subject of sonnets for centuries and has the power to lift your mood and help you slow down with just a few sniffs. Before planting your rose bushes, you need to prepare the soil so that they will thrive once planted. Maintaining a loamy soil with the proper pH will cause your rose bushes to reward you with lots of growth and plentiful blooms throughout the growing season. Dig up the grass from the area where you intend to plant your roses. Use the tiller to loosen the soil until you can work it easily. Mix compost into your garden soil using your tiller until half of the planting material is comprised of soil and half of the planting material is comprised of compost. Test the pH of your soil in order to ensure that it is roughly 6.5. If you need to adjust the acidity of the
