I am not working market this weekend. It is sort of a relief for me, because my weeks have been so crazy busy. So that meant that I got to try out one of our local markets to try to get my weekly goodies. This week I bought 2 bunches Chioggia Beets (the peppermint striped ones), 2 bunches golden beets, apricots, peaches, purple carrots, romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, speckle red leaf lettuce, cilantro, a bag of the largest chocolate and peanut butter cookies I had ever seen, and worm tea for my roses.
I have about 10 rose bushes, and I honestly, having never had flowers before, don't have any idea how to make them healthy. The sign above the worm tea (which I have used and made before for my veggie garden) said "Will reduce black rot in roses!" So I figured that I would try it out for my flowers now too. She gave me a little list of instructions along with my tea and she said to only spray them in the morning. Here's hoping it helps my new rose bushes. :)
my mil bought me 3 rose bushes when we bought our house 7 years ago. i am sad to say i am a horrible rose keeper though :/ i am more of a wildflower kind of gal, lol! i really should out forth a little more effort though because they are very pretty!
ReplyDeleteI have found that it almost isn't worth it to keep roses that are not native to the area. My blue rose is doing great, but it is in a pot. The rest of them, well the native, more wild tea roses, are doing great, but the others are dying a slow and painful death. It's so sad! I have decided that if I add anymore roses to the rose gardens, I will add natives and tea roses only. :)
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