hampartsum said:Thanks you all for the bits and pieces that start to fit into my rose gardening scheme...
We feed our sheep daily with alfalfa pellets. They gobble partly, some are spread around on their bedding stuff which is a mixture of dry straw plus wood shavings plus dry leaves, each whenever awailable. The left over ground alfalfa (= alfalfa meal) which my sheep ignore is dumped on the bedding every day when a new ration is provided. Every time they go out of their inside enclosure they carry a bit of this mixture into the barn alleys and corridors, which needs to be swept and...
lo here's my ready ammendment for my roses!Yesterday I started to spread it under and above my ( way behind) rose plantings. Perhaps that is my answer to the one cane wonder roses that are lacking the triacontanol! ( I'm not worried about odours here...I'm accustomed to them every time I step into the barn...
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I shun from adding extra work to my already never diminishing work load. I would indulge into the tea process only out of necessity which doesn't look quite that way just now. I'm watching this thread and will report in about 2 months how my roses are faring. I'm spreading it to enhance the fall flush and growth.
Arturo
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