Growing alfalfa to use on your roses - anyone else doing this?
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What is your favorite color rose? Do you grow only fragrant ones?
Comments (18)I'm with Seil and Ben - nothing makes my heart go pitter patter or my wallet go "poof" faster than a picotee, mutable or striped rose, the more high contrast the better. After that I'm drawn to the "oddball" colors of russet, parchment or lavender (or best all three together, like Distant Drums or Koko Loko). Dark dark burgundy flowers also zing something in my soul. As for wafting, even without my poor nose nothing really wafts very far in my dry climate. We don't get wafting of hyacinths and lilacs in the spring even though I have 100's of the former and 3 well established bushes of the latter. Peonies you have to get up close to smell, and the same for lilies. I'll get a vague "pleasant smell" from an area with over 10 Stargazer lilies blooming, but even my son with the hypersensitive nose doesn't gag at the smell. It just dissipates too fast. I never knew Darlow's Enigma or Marie Pavie were supposed to have any scent at all, and even my daughter with a good nose shrugs when presented with a bouquet of those. I like fragrance when I can get it, but I look far more often than I smell, as far as roses go. Cynthia...See Morealfalfa: does anyone use it?
Comments (8)Hi folks, that's great, thanks for your messages. @Ken, I really like that picture of an effervescent retriever,, in a strictly cartoon kind of way. you know, when I was little, my gran's neighbour had two halfgrown golden retriever pups, and I and my cousin were allowed to play with them. One was called Fidus which is Latin for true or loyal, and he was an escape master... is youd dog in doggy heaven or just outdoors? I could lay hands on 100% Alfalfa, nothing added, after years of looking for the stuff in smaller quantaties than a ton. so, yes, I will use it next spring for my roses and in smaller quantaties for my perennials. I didn't know about the growth hormon ingredient but it sounds interesting or even fascinating. I think I will go for a 2-4 daysTea approach and some part sprinkled onto the soil and worked in. my alottment is within the city, so no bunnies. The wildest life we get is obese cats from the surrounding houses, mice and the ocasional hedgehog. We have a small hut, but I will take the alfalfa home, into a dry basement without mice... if everything goes according to my long pondered plan, I redo two narrow perennial beds this fall. And the alfalfa could give them a good boost next spring and my soil can still be developed and nurtured, I keep reading up on soil stuff, microbes and organic matter, and in a nutshell you can not have too much organic matter in the soil. but I will go easy on the alfalfa to avoid burning roots --- re dogs perhaps I use some tea on Rhododendrons of a client of mine. She has a lovely small poodle, in which case I should stick stricktly to tea, I guess. She is mollycoddeling that poor pooch anyway, and gives it a bath if it gets soil on its paws, so I guess Madame would have a fit if her lovely pooch startet to turn effervescent and tomorrow I'm off to the garden for another mulching spree in order to keep last night's rain in the soil. I got about 120 pounds of mulch from the feed store, chopped flax and chopped straw, to play around with. And the temperatures will rise soon and stay up around 96F for August so, have a good weekend, bye, Lin...See MoreDoes anyone else here have problems with weeds growing in your pots?
Comments (38)Yes Mike. It is a very handy tool. The bent tip makes it really useful. You can grab the base of the plant and jiggle the base to loosen the roots and pull it out. Very useful when reaching in tight spaces especially for succulents. In bonsai the back of the tool that likes a little spade is useful to tamp down the soil, smooth it out and tamp down moss on the soil. I have two of them because my wife seems to like it too and it disappears from my tool box from time to time. Come to think of it I have two of most tools....See MoreRoses that do well even when you're unbelievably bad at growing them
Comments (74)Diane not only is that a stunning example of a Black Lace Elderberry, but also I'm amazed that it let you prune it that way. Mine is a total diva about pruning. Cut mine anywhere back of the blooms even slightly - like maybe tip pruning or cutting off a few crispy leaves - and the entire branch rather dramatically dies down to the ground. Every time. No exceptions. I even have some thick branches that are totally dead that I'm leaving for fear of disturbing the rest. I've gotten so I don't do anything but finger prune off the blooms and I do even that gingerly so that I don't disturb anything else about Her Highness's eccentric hair-do. Mine is robustly winter hardy but after shedding 50% of her branches if I dare to brush against them too roughly, mine is still rather sparse at about 6-7' of limp "I vant to be alone" lounging against the 5' wire green fence I use to keep her together and out of harm's way. Yep, she's my Greta Garbo of shrubs. Suited for Sweden and lovely when she's happy but a spoiled headache when she's not. Cynthia...See MoreCori Ann - H0uzz violated my privacy
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