@Fire, yes, when I can get it, I give a seaweed drench inbetween general rose feed times.
Mega storm here during the night, the rain was so fierce and prolonged it woke us up! Haven’t inspected the damage yet as it’s still raining, but here’s a couple from yesterday:
Eufemia, a bit better in the cooler weather but still not wowing me:
Stormy Weather, lots more to come from my favourite rose:
Love Song, a bit of BS now but otherwise strong and healthy with large blooms:
I do @Fire. This year I put down a layer of kelp meal in the spring, and I also feed roses with a liquid feed that includes seaweed extracts. This year I’ve been trialling Flower Power by Richard Jackson, in an Aquamix hose end sprayer. The Aquamix is pretty good but it drips a little which is annoying, but I don’t think there’s anything better afaik. I tried Uncle Tom’s rose tonic last year but I think the Flower Power is better.
Lovely displays @Nollie, I’ve decided to order Marie Pavie 👍
That's what I thought @Fire , and why I gave all my roses a dose at the beginning of the season. I wonder if that is why they haven't suffered so much from blackspot 🤔, even though its been a wet/dull early summer, and I now have later flowers.🤔 ( just lots of sawflies)🙄
One of the benefits of seaweed use is that it feeds the soil.
'As seaweed breaks down into the soil, it encourages microorganisms whose activities help convert unavailable nutrients into forms that plants can use. It increases chlorophyll production and contains many micronutrients important for soil and plant health, as well as acting as a growth stimulant: it is rich in cytokinins, plant growth hormones that work above and below ground, improving root growth.'
Yes I think the trace minerals and growth stimulants in seaweed are good for general plant health @Fire, you can use it anytime. I use it as a soil/root drench, not a foliar feed. Levingtons do a (high potash) tomato feed with seaweed extract so maybe switch to that when you want to encourage blooming, or try @Omori’s new discovery 😊 PS - hope you like MP Omori!
My feeding regime has been a complete experiment this year as I couldn’t get any proprietary rose feed like DA/Vitax so have been making my own alfalfa tea plus added fish food, magnesium and iron, then topping up in between applications with the seaweed/fish emulsion/tomato feed, subject to whatever I could get my mitts on in the EU. All a bit random. Inorganic stuff for pots I started off with miracle-gro slow release granules then later used an Italian 20-20-20 fertiliser called SymbiaGro. Difficult to judge whether all that was better or worse than last year’s more traditional regime but at least nothing actually died!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Good and sunny now, not too much damage from the tempest last night apart from a few droopy DAs, plus the open blooms of Soul always suffer a bit in heavy downpours.
I have lots of lovely, lush new growth on Marie Pavie, Rose de Rescht, Blush Noisette and Mme. Isaac Pereire but my favourite new foliage has to be Mme. Antoine Mari, with it’s mix of purple, bronze and red leaves. I can only echo Marlorena’s high praise for this rose:
Some bright colours..
Super Trooper:
Golden Celebration:
Guy Savoy is tall, vigorous and rudely healthy but it’s a bit too eye-popping for the gentler, more refined East Garden scheme. I might have to break my ‘no pink in the hot border’ rule. If it can take blazing sun, it’s big showy blooms could hold their own in there, I think.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I use seaweed drench, probably 4 times over this summer, the one with added iron if a rose is looking chlorotic. The pots get tomato feed fortnightly ish but not if I've given seaweed that week. Everything got spring DA feed or Miraclegro rose food if potted and another dose in July.
Things looking sunny today; Charles Darwin, Easy Does It (this never stops), Bidens, WOH and BathshebaProbably my last The Prince bloom this seasonDioressence as nice as it's been
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Mega storm here during the night, the rain was so fierce and prolonged it woke us up! Haven’t inspected the damage yet as it’s still raining, but here’s a couple from yesterday:
Eufemia, a bit better in the cooler weather but still not wowing me:
Stormy Weather, lots more to come from my favourite rose:
Love Song, a bit of BS now but otherwise strong and healthy with large blooms:
@Marie Pavie, barely stopped all year:
I wonder if that is why they haven't suffered so much from blackspot 🤔, even though its been a wet/dull early summer, and I now have later flowers.🤔 ( just lots of sawflies)🙄
'As seaweed breaks down into the soil, it encourages microorganisms whose activities help convert unavailable nutrients into forms that plants can use. It increases chlorophyll production and contains many micronutrients important for soil and plant health, as well as acting as a growth stimulant: it is rich in cytokinins, plant growth hormones that work above and below ground, improving root growth.'
My feeding regime has been a complete experiment this year as I couldn’t get any proprietary rose feed like DA/Vitax so have been making my own alfalfa tea plus added fish food, magnesium and iron, then topping up in between applications with the seaweed/fish emulsion/tomato feed, subject to whatever I could get my mitts on in the EU. All a bit random. Inorganic stuff for pots I started off with miracle-gro slow release granules then later used an Italian 20-20-20 fertiliser called SymbiaGro. Difficult to judge whether all that was better or worse than last year’s more traditional regime but at least nothing actually died!
I have lots of lovely, lush new growth on Marie Pavie, Rose de Rescht, Blush Noisette and Mme. Isaac Pereire but my favourite new foliage has to be Mme. Antoine Mari, with it’s mix of purple, bronze and red leaves. I can only echo Marlorena’s high praise for this rose:
Some bright colours..
Super Trooper:
Golden Celebration:
Guy Savoy is tall, vigorous and rudely healthy but it’s a bit too eye-popping for the gentler, more refined East Garden scheme. I might have to break my ‘no pink in the hot border’ rule. If it can take blazing sun, it’s big showy blooms could hold their own in there, I think.