Hi peeps just wandering what rose feed people use for roses, like liquid, granules, slow release. I was using Doff Rose & Shrub food and had ok results.
I use Toprose. I've never used anything else. Seems ok but I've nothing to compare it with so far but I bought a box of Wilkos one to try. I use granules because I know I'd never get around to watering in the liquid as needed.
I use slow release pelleted chicken manure scattered by the liberal handful or two on all of my rose beds so it feeds the bulbs and perennials too. I also buy a slow release, organic feed for roses and scatter more carefull around the roses. When I can get it I pile on some well-rooted manure in early spring while the soil is moist but has started to warm up.
This year I finally have enough comfrey to harvest and make a "tea" and that'll be used as a liquid feed on both roses and tomatoes.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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I have been using the Vitax Rose organic one when planting and for fertilising this year. Here is the one rose that was *badly* chlorotic last year. The foliage is already looking much healthier, it seems to me. But I have also put down some sulphate of iron and been putting banana skins and tea leaves in quite haphazardly and unscientifically, too.
I generally use Blood fish and Bone in early March and again in late June (but only for repeat flowering roses, not ramblers etc that only flower once) I sometimes use Toprose which I think is very good. Just as important, if not more so is a good mulch of rotted manure/compost in Spring to get them off to a good start.
Billericay - Essex
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I opened the wilco pack I was going to try out it's very powdery and it was a windy day. Experiment abandoned. Also it seemed to have an animal product smell. Not a problem unless you have foxes. Good for no dig gardening I suppose😉
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I use granules because I know I'd never get around to watering in the liquid as needed.
This year I finally have enough comfrey to harvest and make a "tea" and that'll be used as a liquid feed on both roses and tomatoes.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I sometimes use Toprose which I think is very good.
Just as important, if not more so is a good mulch of rotted manure/compost in Spring to get them off to a good start.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.