Here the whole ground around a rose bush is mulched with compost. At this point the compost is also watered down well. It helps to get the fertilizer, which is underneath the compost, quicker into the ...

The fertilizer industry inundates us with long lists of countless “must-use” products for roses. The accompanying directions call for dizzyingly frequent applications that cost a lot and take a major ...

Q: When should I fertilize my roses? Is it OK to use fertilizer stakes? They are starting to bud now. A: Fertilize them any time now. They are fertilized sometime toward the end of January when growth ...

My therapist at the Towers in Ashland asked me about why her roses were losing all of her leaves and most of the blooms on her roses in June of last year. She said to me, "Eric, I have lost so much of ...

Banana peels add organic matter to the soil, but they don't provide enough nutrients for growing roses. Blood meal, fish emulsion, and bone meal are more ideal fertilizers for all kinds of roses.

Winter is coming, but that doesn't have to spell bad news for your rosebushes. Prepare your roses for snow, ice, and frost by ...

I’ve been receiving a lot of questions about fertilizer: Which kinds do I use, how much and how often? I wish these had straightforward answers, but there are a lot of things to take into ...

QUESTION: I'm trying to decide when to fertilize the many different kinds of plants in my landscape. I don't know when to start fertilizing or when I should stop. What is the best fertilizer to use ...

Late winter is an ideal time to begin feeding garden plants with organic type fertilizers. Plant foods that contain natural materials like bone meal, blood meal, soybean meal, kelp meal and the like ...

Vegetables to plant in March: Now is a good time to plant cantaloupe, collards, corn, cucumbers, cucuzza, kohlrabi, lima beans, mirliton (plant the entire fruit with the sprouted end in the soil about ...

Many things contribute to optimal plant and garden health: picking the right plant variety in the first place, planting it in the right soil (and in a spot with right number of hours of sun per day), ...