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For something I pour under my roses several times a season, Metarhizium gets very little attention. Everyone has heard of neem oil. Almost nobody outside of commercial greenhouses talks about a green soil fungus that hunts insects for a living. And yet my inbox keeps filling with the same handful of questions about it, so
Dig up a healthy, established rose almost anywhere in my Kojori garden and look closely at the rootball, and you’ll usually find something nobody planted there on purpose: a fine white webbing running through the soil, almost like frost caught on a windowpane. That’s mycorrhizal fungi, and it’s a much bigger part of why a
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Grey mold on roses, caused by Botrytis cinerea, thrives in cool, damp conditions. Remove affected flowers and leaves immediately, improve air circulation, and apply an organic fungicide. Proper spacing and avoiding overhead watering are key to preventing further outbreaks and protecting your rose blooms. Botrytis cinerea is the organism behind it, and unlike powdery mildew,
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Honestly, it took me a while to get here. Like many gardeners, I used to grab those NPK packets off the shelf — nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. I figured: if it says “for roses,” it must be good. But then I started noticing things. The soil was hardening and becoming lifeless. Fewer earthworms. And my roses?
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I’ll be honest about how this one started: a reader in my Facebook group asked whether the little brown bottle of “Bacillus subtilis” she’d bought for her tomatoes would also help her roses, and I realized I’d never actually written down, in one place, what I tell people about it. I use it constantly. I
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Everything rose growers actually need to know: what it is, how your bush caught it, whether to keep it, and how to care for it. Plus honest answers to the questions everyone asks.Every summer, right on schedule, it happens. A rose that looked perfectly fine in May starts pushing out leaves covered in yellow squiggles,
Rose Mosaic Virus: Yellow Patterns on Rose Leaves Explained Read More »
Roses are often called the “queens of the garden,” and like any queen, they can be a little dramatic when something’s wrong. One day your bushes are covered in glossy green leaves, and a few weeks later you’re staring at ugly black blotches wondering what you did wrong.I’ve grown 150 rose bushes organically for years,
What are black spots on rose leaves, and how to treat them? Read More »
If you’ve been growing roses for any length of time, you know the cycle all too well: leaves spotted with black dots, powdery white coating on buds, stems rotting at the base, and you reaching for a fungicide spray. Again. And again.What if I told you there’s a fungus that actually wants to live in
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Notes from a gardener who feeds the soil, not the chemistry. Picture this: you’re standing in your rose garden. The bushes are towering, with lush, glossy foliage, each leaf the size of your palm. The blooms are massive and intensely fragrant. The canes are thick, woody, and sturdy, with the structural integrity of a grapevine.
Organic Rose Gardening: Why I Ditched NPK to Build Healthy Soil Read More »
I still remember the morning I found it. A young, vigorous shoot on my favorite climber the one I’d been nurturing since March, had collapsed at midday. Not from the base, not from the tip, but from somewhere in the middle, as if an invisible hand had pinched the life out of it. I cut