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Hello folks. I'm building a little rose garden. I've got some gardening experience but I have two queries, hope you can help.
I began planning my garden last summer and as I'm on the coast I collected a large bucket of seaweed and began soaking it, adding mackerel scraps from week to week. It's now a veritable stink bomb but I've zero idea how to gauge my stink bomb soup to water ratio. I'd hate to overfertilise my roses.
2nd query concerns climbers. I've planted 14 so far. I've been swotting and read that the main canes should never be cut back ???? But I've come across advice here that does recommend cutting them back as part of a maintenance chore. I'm guessing if something is getting huge it is necessary sometimes. In that case should I choose an emerging lateral and train it to be a new main cane ????? Would that be correct, as I'd expect my climber to become a shaggy shrub if I cut back main canes
Thank you in anticipation ????
Peter
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#1 of 9 posted
13 FEB 21 by
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Many thanks for the reply. My climbers are as follows
Gertrude Jekyll x2
James Galwayx2
Pilgrim
Bathsheba
Eden x2
Candy land
Golden showers
Glorious gardener x2
Delightful
Scent from Heaven x2
Oops that's 15 ????
Plus 19 shrub roses, most of them David Austins.
I'd have planted more but bloody Brexit landed like a brick and now I can't even buy a packet of seeds and DA have stopped delivering to any EU country including my own little province.
My seaweed gunk is in liquid form, the weed itself has long since rotted away so it definitely needs diluting. ????
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#3 of 9 posted
13 FEB 21 by
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Thank you, I'll check out that suggestion. Eagerly looking forward to seeing and smelling these roses.
Peter
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14 FEB 21 by
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Read that, very informative and detailed. Where I live now there is a long history of seaweed harvesting, even 'seaweed wars', when the tides out you can still see lines of stones marking out the shore for 'ownership. Only a few local lads bother now, and it's for the garden, not commercially. He makes a Nice specific point, laying it on the soil but under a mulch so it breaks down into the soil, otherwise it dries on the surface and becomes hard and takes ages to break down. Great stuff, put my coal scuttle hat on now and head for the beach for a barrow load. Will defo take pictures but as it's my first year I'm not expecting a lot
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15 FEB 21 by
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I started a big compost pile last summer and all the household scraps except cooked food go into it, loads of egg shells, banana peel, tea leaves, leaf litter, 2yr old cow dung and seaweed. I dug out all my locations and infilled with my garden soil and my compost pile, so can do no more, it's up to my Austins now. Fingers crossed for a little good weather. Last year we had a blistering spring and a sodden summer, typical Irish summer.
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