Recipe for home made Mills Magic Rose Mix?
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Cheap source Mills Magic Mix ???
Comments (3)It contains alfalfa meal, cotton seed meal, fish meal, bone meal, blood meal, and activated sewage sludge. I can purchase all the meals at feed stores that specialize in pig feed. The activated sewage sludge is often a local product. In my area and many others, it's available as Milorganite, a product of the Milwaukee sanitary district. I use equal parts of each. Buying them in 50# bags gives me 300# of fertilizer. A cement mixing barrel from a local home supply filled and rolled on the driveway, does a great job of mixing it Sometimes I'll add some magnesium sulfate (Epsom salts), also sold at pig feed suppliers, in lesser amounts. You can also substitute triple super phosphate for bone meal. Some garden centers will special order these products for you if you cannot locate a ready source. Doing it yourself lowers the cost from $26 a 20# bag, to less than $5 for a like amount. Too bad you don't live closer to Cleveland, Tennessee. Beaty Fertilizer, the manufacturer sells it by the pallet at very reduced prices picked up at the factory. I use to drive there every spring and pick up a couple of pallets for my rose society until I began mixing it myself....See MoreRose Tone or Mills Magic
Comments (5)Rose Tone is readily available at most nurseries and big Box stores. It contains both high quality synthetic fertilizers as well as practically every organic fertilizer and soil amendment known to man (see link for the label ingredients). Mills' Magic Mix contains only a synthetic phosphate source, all the rest of the ingredients are organic-certified except for the sewage sludge. The recipe is equal amounts of Blood meal, cottonseed meal, alfalfa meal, fish meal, Milorganite, Epsom Salts and superphosphate, according to Karl Bapst. Mill's is harder to come by and usually has to be mail-ordered. It has an enthusiastic fan club which includes many well-known rosarians. Some people supplement Mills' Mix with liquid synthetics, a procedure recommended by Mills, himself. I don't see any reason to supplement Rose Tone with liquid fertilizers - you'd just be adding more of the same stuff. Which one is better? I suspect it would be hard to tell and I certainly don't know, I'm an Osmocote and alfalfa nut. Here is a link that might be useful: Rose Tone Label...See MoreMills Magic Mix
Comments (3)There was a busniness in Dover (east of Tampa) who may carry it...he did. I personally don't care for the guy. I think he stopped all his retail business and just cares for roses. Sometimes rose societies will get together for a shipment but that is almost always in the spring. You could ask Beaty Fertilzer if anyone in your area carries it. Otherwise I think you are going to have to mail order it....See MoreHome-made recipes for black spots/rust
Comments (5)"Black Spot" is a disease of roses, although it could potentially also infect apples since they are the same family of plants. Often other plants do get some black spots but those are caused by many other bacteria or viruses, or mechanical damage, and I've not seen that Baking Soda is very effective in controlling those. For example, Maples (Acer species) every year get Black Tar Spot which is not controlled by Baking Soda or much opf anything else. But that also does not do much harm to the infected trees....See Morewindeaux
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