Why I'll not order from Mariseeds again.
KCKook
12 years ago
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Comments (7)Gandle, "Captain from Castile" must have been a Book-of-the-Month club book back then. I remember it on my parent's bookshelf way back when, but have never read it. Sometimes it's very instructive to read those old bestsellers. Right now I've been wallowing in WWII. I got a book from Amazon.uk, (my favorite place to find a lot of stuff that never gets published over here) that is diaries collected by Mass Observation of people's experiences during the war. It was a fascinating book, and did a lot to dispel the myths I've heard from my family my whole life about the war. Now I'm reading Julie & Julia about a young woman who decides to make every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking & write a blog about her experiences. It's a charming book, and has some interesting insights into good....See MoreWhy I'll Never Buy From ARE Again
Comments (16)My two cents: Please consider giving them another chance. I did get a mislabeled rose from them once, but have continued to order from them without any further problems. Of course, I did get a healthy rose even though it wasn't the one I ordered. If they were dying, that might be another problem. However, I tend not to plant anything into the ground unless the roots are coming out of the bottom of the pot--or close to it. That might be something you may want to consider in the future. I think it's important to have patience and forgiveness with a company that's good overall. (You may never have another problem with them again.) Also, as others have pointed out, the number of places that sell old roses (and willing to do mail order) is shrinking. And let's face it: you can't find these roses at Walmart....See MoreThink I'll try again...
Comments (2)Usually roses are not to be fed when it's hot, but just before and after, so in early spring (to give them a good start) and at the beginning of autumn, for a good "last display" of flowers before they stop. I agree that HT roses are very disease prone, even those who are more resistant cannot live healthy on their own. You could try the knockout roses (pink, red, single and double), and the china roses: these are very healthy and love the sun. They are zero maintenance or nearly-zero m. Regardless of the roses you will choose, remember that the best remedy for all diseases is prevention. The best prevention is a good exposition: sun, light, and especially air: air must circulate. This will prevent fungal diseases a lot. Give this to an extremely healthy rose such as knockout or mutabilis, and you will never see diseases. The rose bed: remember roses love space, so you have to imagine them full grown, to plant them with the correct distance. Dig a deep hole and fill it with very fertile earth. If you do not have a good drainage, add some (only some!) sand to the earth and put some small stones at the bottom of the hole: these will help improving the drainage. PS: a slightly acid soil is ideal; anything with a bit of peat will do...See MoreWS tomato, heck yeah I'll do it again next year.
Comments (5)Beautiful, Melissa! Again, this hasn't been a great year for tomatoes in the North Country. My SIL just pulled out her purchased plants last week. For the 2nd year, they got some weird disease. I kept asking how theirs were doing and they said "fine" (I think there's some kind of specific "tomato pride" that people who garden sometimes have...never admit defeat). I wanted to see how there's were doing, because mine are in containers and I would move them to the front of the house if theirs weren't doing well, just to prevent any disease from transferring to mine. No such luck. My FIL told me they pulled there's up this weekend, and now, plants I had that were doing ok for the past two weeks are fizzling. Of the 6 WSed plants someone was nice enough to give to me,only one is doing well. The volunteer plants are doing good-- they took forever to come up, and they are far behind where they would normally be. I did Summer Sow some Toms to replace the others that never germinated, and those plants are doing very well. They are supposed to be especially bred for containers, and they are ready to go into their homes this week. (I think I need to do a test on those other seeds that I WSed. I've NEVER had a tom seed not germinate for me, no matter when I sowed it). Toms are expensive in the stores and farmers markets up here again this year-- a sign that everyone is having the same trouble.So you might be able to get a decent buck for yours if you get an over-abundance! :-) Linda...See MoreKCKook
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