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bird nesting in my rose arbour
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Posted by curlylocks 6 (My Page) on Mon, May 12, 08 at 13:13
| I think I'm going to lose my roses for this year unless I'm able to come up with surefire solutions for the typical leaf problems seen on roses. A small bird has built a nest on one of the wrungs of my rose arbour. You would literally think that the thing is ready to fall apart, but I guess it knows what it's doing, however, how do I maintain the roses organically without hurting the bird or its babies when they've hatched? You gotta love mother nature. This is the first year for a nest there. |
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RE: bird nesting in my rose arbour
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| You grow a rose organically by providing a good, healthy soil so the rose will grow strong and healthy and that will allow those baby birds to grow up strong and healthy too. What, if anything, were you planning on doing that would have been potentially harmful to the birds? |
RE: bird nesting in my rose arbour
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| the leaves suffer pretty badly from black spot and rust. I was afraid that if I used some homemade mixtures and sprayed the leaves that I would hurt the birds. |
RE: bird nesting in my rose arbour
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Well, it can help to thin it out some to allow good air circulation and sunlight exposure. I totally agree with good soil, feed it with some compost or compost tea.
Prune off or knock off the ratty leaves if you can without disturbing the birds. If there is alot of them, you might want to collect them and bag them and throw them out to avoid re-infection, some people compost all of that and some don't. In my opinion, it is a lovely treat to have birds nesting in my garden, I am thrilled by that, and would rather accept some spotted leaves. Another, more drastic option, is to get rid of the rose (shovel prune it) if it is mostly ratty looking, in favor of a more adapted variety, but don't do this during the nesting season. Good luck, and enjoy. |
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