How do I contain runners from the Rosa Ragusa? I put a Ragusa Rose in the garden out front, ...
I put a Ragusa Rose in the garden out front, but I hold to constantly pull the runners up. It really messes up the mulch and other plants. Is within anyway, short of a metal inground wall, to stop the runners?
Answers: Rosa Rugosa can take over your courtyard like running bamboos. You can purchase gluey plastics designed to line trenches around the offending plant to hang on to it contained in a confined nouns. Available at most garden centers. Or dig down a few inches around the boundary and surround with used RR ties.
Nope. Shovel and pruners. Mulching doesn't stop them any, just make them happy. You can pot up the rooted guys and administer them to .ah, people you don't mind making enemy..or sell at farmer's flea market.
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