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Old 06-04-2003, 05:56 AM
Allegra
 
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Default What can I add to the soil to produce "stronger" roses?


"JimS." told


You know the Seattle Woodland Park zoo does still sell ZooDoo. On your
recommendation as to how great it is for roses, maybe I will just have to go
buy some. I could swear I even saw it packaged and for sale last week at
one of the better nurseries. Only thing I'm afraid of-- if I go by there
again, I'll come back with another rose. And I still haven't figured out
where to put the one I bought last week. oops.

JimS.
Seattle

Well, that does it. When we are going to Tacoma to visit
Robin we are coming back with a couple of bags of the stuff.
Trust me on this one, the roses think of it as chocolate made
in Belgium, turned into French truffles. No joke.

I don't know what happened at our zoo. When I called the
last time they put me on hold and discard and no one seemed
to have the answer. So I just gave up. But if the one in Seattle
has it, I will make sure to get some. I cannot tell you how clean
and efficient it is in the garden. And it works. At some point
early on you could hire someone ( I did have a small Alfa
Romeo with barely enough space for the kids and myself in
those days, both kids in the front seat sharing a single seat belt)
with a little pickup and they would fill the pickup for like
$10.00 or whatever donation you wanted to give. Ah, those
were the days....now a single bag of Whitney's is about $3.00
multiply that for 100 roses (the newer fifty and the others coming
are not getting any this year) and we have to think twice about
it...Thanks for the tip. And stay away from the nurseries!

Allegra