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Comments (6)I live far away from you, in a different climate, but I have experienced much the same as you. I have a rosebed made up of mostly peatmoss bought in bags, and the roses have been suffering from all kinds of anemia and deficiency symptoms. However two years ago I discovered that watering regulrly with a liquid type of fertilizer with all micronutrients made the plants healthy looking and growing well. Last year this was all I gave them. The type I used was very much the same as the non-organic version of Miracle-Gro. A few times I also watered in a weak solution of salpeter [Ca(NO3)2], alcaline nitrogen. This made the old plants grow and flower like never before, and I thought I had found a great solution for this bed. No other type of compost, or solid organic or non-organic fertilizer did much for this bed. This year however all the roses given this treatment are hardly alive, a couple of them completely dead. Non of the other roses were I only use solid organic fertilizer suffered any winterdamage to speak of, and I'm pretty shore this treatment made them very suseptable to frost damage. I though that giving a low nitrogen fertilizer from mid July through August would be enough to harden them off for the winter, but appearantly not. These roses as mentioned are this year either dead, and all very slow to start growing, and they hardly have any leaves or buds compared to healthy roses. Symptoms of iron or nitorgen deficiency and very small leaves. I swear, growing roses organically in real soil makes them more winter hardy. Even though you didn't use water soluble fertilzers like I did, your rose might have suffered similar winter damage to cane and roots. Major mistake on my part, but I suppose this can happen after an extra hard winter too....See Morelab momma or anyone else interested in walkies
Comments (19)You need a "training collar" and a 6' leash for basic obedience work. A "training" collar is what too many people call a "choke" collar. And it's only a choke collar if you put it on the dog incorrectly! I urge you to sign up for a Basic Obedience class... this is what the class is for, to teach you HOW. "Walking politely" is walking with you, often out beside you or in front of you... but NOT pulling on the leash. Your dog has a notion of just how far is acceptable, and knows that pulling is NOT OK. You begin by setting out for your walk as usual. The moment your dog begins to pull, you give a quick tug on the leash and head off in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION. I warn you, you won't get very far on the first few walks, lol. But the point is, you dog must learn that pulling gets him/her NOWHERE and fast! As soon as your dog turns back to you, it's PRAISE, PRAISE, PRAISE. And then then you set off again. You have to be patient and willing to suffer the "learning curve", and you must insist the dog NOT PULL. The way we were taught basic obedience was built on "walking politely"... the understanding of the leash, its constraints, and your ability to enforce commands via the leash. "Heel" was introduced later... after the dog was already walking politely, sitting, staying, "downing" with voice and hand commands. Walking politely was taught in conjunction with "watch me", getting the dog to look you in the eyes; important because getting the dog's attentiion is key to teaching obedience. I've found "watch me" to be the toughest command we've had to master... I'm STILL working on it 2 years hence! Sign yourselves up for a class. You'll LOVE IT! it's fun, rewarding, and gives you a whole new perspective on your dog. And mazer's "walkies" are an integral part of the whole process. The more you walk your dog and practice the commands, the easier it gets and the more fun it becomes. It's downright infectious. ;)...See MoreIs anyone else here getting a very sunless year?
Comments (90)The planet will survive. Eventually, Humans who are like breeding like cockroaches with that technology and health care induced long life span may not. Wildfires are normal but used to be people had common sense to not live in areas that were prone to that. When you built a farm you cleared the land especially in the direction of prevailing winds. Hurricanes are normal, we had a house on a hill near the ocean but not on the ocean - common sense, but now look at the crowded shorelines. After a disaster property values plummet, 5 years later its a boom town again. Yes, we should continue to try to be cleaner, the waters and air in NY are cleaner than ever (no industry anymore we sent it to China where they pollute themselves creating crap we need, to make money to feed the billions there). Another conventional world war or global pandemic would do wonders. Computers pollute, phones pollute, modern life pollutes - reality. Killing any semblence of an economy or a way of life to save nobody isn't helpful either....the sky is falling. multiple deadlines for armegeddon have passed we're all still here. In NY activists and pandering pols refusal to allow a natural gas pipeline (pretty clean burn) has now stopped all new gas hookups and upgrades for NYC and Westchester - a great green victory - maybe a solar panel will heat the house and office tower in winter in the northeast. True ground breakers of cheap limitless clean energy are a century away. Nuclear fusion (not fission) may yet happen...in another 100 years. They may yet find a way to harness hydrogen efficiently in another 50 years. Solar panels and windmills wont do it. Many current scenarios of GREEN only makes matters worse...See MoreDoes anyone suffer with diverticulitis?
Comments (16)Neither a nurse practitioner nor a physician's assistant is a substitute for a physician. And a crappy physician can sometimes be a poor substitute for a good one. I'll see a nurse practitioner or physician's assistant when I have something seasonal and obvious (sore throat, possible flu, cold) when a real doc isn't available. But not otherwise. Never. joann, don't you have access to better medical resources? You need something more thoughtful and intelligent than "take these pills and call again if the problem continues"....See Moreuncle molewacker z9b Danville CA (E.SF Bay)
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