Mike Lyle wrote:
Rusty Hinge wrote:
Mike Lyle wrote:
Rusty Hinge wrote:
Most lilies IME are thankful for what they're given.
What? Yer actual lily-type lilies, not your not-significantly-related
day ones?
Well, I was basing the observation on day lilies and tiger lilies.
Should I have tried a wider pool?

Well, tiger lilies are undeniably true lilies...looks in books...they
do seem to make a point of "well-rotted", and Hellyer even says that,
apart from bone meal and hoof and horn on poor soils, animal manure
shouldn't be used at all. So maybe views are evolving, and the pendulum
is swinging your way; in fact, perhaps you're the swinger...

There are very few plants which really appreciate fresh manure

(Vicar to gardener's wife: "Do you think you could - ah - work on him
and persuade him to call it 'fertiliser'?"

"Heaves above, Vicar, it's taken me six years to persuade him to call it
'manure'!")

Cauliflowers (true caulis, not frit broccolis) and celery are the only
two garden plants I can think of. I wouldn't think of giving it to
anything else in any quantity.

Except perhaps a politician.

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Rusty