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Has anyone ever tried this for fertilizer for your roses?

4 years ago

I came across this video today and thought I'd share it. Maybe I'll try it out to see if there are any benefits?

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Perma n’ Posies/9A FL

4 years ago

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My grandmother kept an old blender on her back porch, for feeding her flowers with scraps. She had an old ice cream container in the freezer that she dropped scraps into, then when it became full, she’d let it thaw a few minutes, then whirl it up in the blender. Dig a hole, dump the goodies in the soil between plants. Her stuff grew amazing! Got to love that Depression-era mindset! :-)

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ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
4 years ago
This is very interesting. I've been putting vegetable peelings, which in my case always includes a lot of onion peels, under a large tree in the back, but I now think I'm just going to bury them in the dirt around my roses and then water the rose. The process might be a bit slower but hopefully in the end it should be just as beneficial.
Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
4 years ago
That should really help you, Ingrid. I used to do this all the time before I had a composting system that worked easily. I buried everything around my plants... coffee, tea, all vegetable peelings and then I'd sprinkle egg shells around the perimeter when I used to have a lot of slugs. You can also put paper under your mulch as the worms love it. It will decompose without being soaked unlike cardboard. If you use a shredder it's even easier.
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Perma n’ Posies/9A FL
4 years ago
Just remembered: if you do keep fertilizer scraps in your freezer in an ice cream container, let your household members know about it. It’s very disappointing to sneaky grandchildren looking for a treat to open an ice cream container full of veggie peelings! :-)
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4 years ago
Perma, I think that was just what people did up until WW11 when living better through chemistry and technology became the norm. My stepmom says that through her teens at least there was scrap man that collected old clothes etc and a slops man that collected peoples old food to feed to pigs or put in compost. Everyone had a compost pile for leaves. Stuff was just too expensive relatively to consider wasting it. You cracked me up with the ice cream container warning! What a disappointment that must have been!
Stephanie, 9b inland SoCal
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Perma, what a great idea from your grandma!!! I think I will need to start doing that. I contemplated a worm bin but really don’t want the hassle. I could totally blend and bury vegetables though. Like a healthy juice drink for plants :-) I am realizing egg shells could get blended too. Over time this will really enrich the soil. Thank you!

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