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Winter dressings.
There is still time to give your roses their winter dressing.
A small handful of sulphate of potash around the roots and then prick it in will do the trick. It will not be very long before the flowering buds will be formed in embryo on the plant including their number, colour, and number of petals per blossom, so they need the food now. Without a winter dressing you will not get the best from your roses,and it will be no use feeding them in the summer for a better display.These things were decided months earlier than that.So for a good show this year go for it now. A common rose pest is blackspot which can spoil the appeal of an otherwise beauiful rose. Blackspot is a virus which lives in the soil and spraying with some poisonous chemical in the summer is a waste of time as well as a health hazard.(Some say it's a fungus). A good organic safeguard is garlic. Yes garlic! It pops up everywhere, doesn't it? It will keep the virus/fungus down and reduce or possibly eliminate the infection. Simply get a couple of cloves from the kitchen and plant around the roots. You can leave it there year on year if you like, simply thinning out when there is too much. Plant them now. Here's a couple of piccies if you'd like to see them. One is Rosa Geoff Hamilton taken last summer, The other is, well, just a leek, but my Annie does a wicked leek and potato soup that sticks to the ribs so on 17 Dec once the rain stopped I was out digging. Have a Good Year,everyone! Yours in gardening, Sam |
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Winter dressings.
sam wrote:
Here's a couple of piccies if you'd like to see them. One is Rosa Geoff Hamilton taken last summer, The other is, well, just a leek, but my Annie does a wicked leek and potato soup that sticks to the ribs so on 17 Dec once the rain stopped I was out digging. Have a Good Year,everyone! Yours in gardening, Sam http://tinyurl.com/yw86mu Sorry folk! Sam |
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Winter dressings.
sam wrote:
The other is, well, just a leek, but my Annie does a wicked leek and potato soup that sticks to the ribs so on 17 Dec once the rain stopped I was out digging. Just a leek ! How do you get them that size ? Envy, envy ,envy! Regards Paul -- CTC Right to Ride Rep. for Richmond upon Thames |
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