How to Easily Plant Bare-Root Roses

Many times when you order roses from online nurseries and gardening centers, they are shipped in bare-root form. Bare-root roses don't have any dirt around the root area and they require the use of a special planting technique to ensure that they survive and thrive.

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Instructions

- 1
  Remove all the packaging material.
- 2
  Fill a bucket will cool water. Put the rose in the water roots first and let the rose plant soak for up to 12 hours.
- 3
  Remove the plant from the water and cut off all broken stems and roots. Remove any cane that is thinner than a pencil, but try to let at least three to five canes on the plant.
- 4
  Dig a hole about 3 to 4 inches deeper than the length of the root and 3 to 4 inches wider than the width of the root.
- 5
  Form a small mound of soil in the middle of the hole.
- 6
  Add about 2 to 3 inches of compost to the bottom of the hole and mix compost into the soil dug out from the planting hole.
- 7
  Put the roots into the hole, making sure that the bud union remains at soil level, and fill the hole with the soil and compost mixture.
- 8
  Water the rose bush. Let the water absorb into the ground and add more soil-compost mixture to form a small mound.

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