By Pdb
Lancashire, United Kingdom
Do your GOYers with large herbaceous borders feed the plants throughout the growing season? I have large borders and never seem to have the time to feed them. Also would blood fish and bone be ok to feed the roses?
- 13 Jul, 2012
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Neither do I,but give them a good layer of compost each year..Roses are different,and need feeding..
13 Jul, 2012
I sprinkle Growmore around my plants in Spring. I give the roses blood, fish and bone in Spring and then Rose Feed in June.
13 Jul, 2012
Nope. I sprinkle fertilizer on the borders in spring but that's it. Roses I give blood, fish and bone at the beginning of their growth in spring and then like Dawnsaunt, rose feed after the first flush of blooms around about now. Mind you, I do give an ericacious feed to the Camellia and other acid loving plants every couple of months when I remember!
13 Jul, 2012
My borders get a general feed in early spring and nothing more
13 Jul, 2012
My borders are lucky if they get a mulch of manure or compost through the autumn, Done it a couple of times in 9 years. Never feed with owt else.
14 Jul, 2012
Thanks to all. Just thought I'd better check in case I'm neglecting them. I also mulch in spring but nothing else.
14 Jul, 2012
I apply Growmore, like Dawn, in spring as growth begins, at the same time as turning over the soil. Some years, like this one, if there's a possible problem with water supply, I mulch with something like soil conditioning compost. Not that there has been a problem with water supply, as it turns out, in fact, I'm surprised the mulch didn't float away ... That's it, nothing else after that - but I do use Toprose on the roses twice, once in April, and again 6 weeks later.
14 Jul, 2012
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Never feed them at all. And yes for the Roses.
13 Jul, 2012