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@Elena999. If you have dogs, NEVER let them associate "tomato" with the ones on the plants or you will NEVER have another tomato! (or strawberry, or apple, or peach, or plum....) THEY will help themselves to everything that even remotely resembles the fruit! I have to watch which flowers I pollinate because if one of "The Goddesses" can reach the ripening hip, it's HERS. Yes ma'am, tomatoes and roses benefit pretty much from the same fertilizer type. Life certainly is easier when you realize just how few types of fertilizer there really are. Thanks "specialization"!
@USCARTER see if you can find a water wand. Rinsing off the undersides of the rose leaves regularly not only cools the plants during hot weather, but it rehydrates them and makes life there unattractive to spider mites and other insects. In the kind of heat and aridity you experience there, wet foliage shouldn't pose any disease issues for you. Some of the best foliage I ever generated was when I could leave an over head, oscillating sprinkler running for hours, flooding beds in the Santa Clarita Valley, SoCal. It was Zone 9b, mid desert, inland valley heat, often triple digit during the worst of the summer and the roses LOVED it. No sun scald. Lots of water spotted flowers from the sprinkler water, but gorgeous foliage and plants that exploded into growth and bloom. Water is usually the best fungicide, insecticide and definitely fertilizer.
