Re: ot gardening [snicker] it's rooted

Oh I'm sure.  It really is good stuff.  I even use a REALLY diluted solution on my seedlings once they germinate.

Pam

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Kitty Morrissy" <kmrsy@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:43:38 -0500

>I have some dried dried kelp.  Would it help to scratch a little into the
>soil of houseplants?
>Kitty
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Pamela J. Evans <gardenqueen@gbronline.com>
>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> Date: 12/14/2002 6:37:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] ot gardening [snicker] it's rooted
>>
>> I adore kelp - it's good for everything!  Diluted on house plants and
>containers, makes a great fertilizer for everything in the yard, even as a
>foliar feed for my roses and peppers mixed w/ a little Neem to keep the
>fungal diseases at bay.  I couldn't do w/out it!!
>>
>> Pam
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> From: jim singer <jsinger@igc.org>
>> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Date:  Sat, 14 Dec 2002 17:21:37 -0500
>>
>> >probably wouldn't hurt. could help. kelp is gentle stuff and generally
>good 
>> >for maintaining the status quo--and that's what you want here. keep the 
>> >dilution up [50-100:1] come spring you'll want to burn the barn in a 
>> >potting mix laced with blood, bone, and cotton seed--and horse manure
>[if 
>> >you can get it].
>> >
>> >
>> >At 05:05 PM 12/14/02 -0600, you wrote:
>> >>Jim - do you think of dab of liquid kelp in the water might help
>nutrient 
>> >>wise?  Or would that be too much??
>> >>
>> >>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> >>From: jim singer <jsinger@igc.org>
>> >>Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> >>Date:  Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:45:24 -0500
>> >>
>> >> >this is exciting, donna. this is what i would do if i lived where you
>do.
>> >> >1. i would keep the rooted cutting in water, but 2. i would make sure
>the
>> >> >water was sweet [add charcoal nuggets, replenish with bottled "spring"
>> >> >water]. 3. i would try to keep the level of light and temperature the
>same
>> >> >[constant] as the rooting level. 4. i would keep my fingers crossed
>until
>> >> >spring.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >At 03:34 PM 12/14/02 -0600, you wrote:
>> >> >>Sorry for the cross posts...
>> >> >>
>> >> >>Some of you may recall in the spring I was trying to id a tree,
>Prunus
>> >> >>serrulata 'Shirofugen.' (yeah, I know about a million messages ago)
>> >> >>
>> >> >>As I was unearthing a spare bedroom that was filled with X-Mas
>packages,
>> >> >>I found the branch, and still had water in the bottle that contained
>it.
>> >> >>( how did that happen!)
>> >> >>
>> >> >>It appears to have many small roots on it now. Since I live in zone
>5,
>> >> >>the weather is already winter, and the ground is frozen. Although
>nature
>> >> >>has already taken care of this soon to be tree, and it obviously
>wants
>> >> >>to live, what should I do to help it along? Leave it and add
>nutrients
>> >> >>to the water? Try potting it up and move it to a better light
>location?
>> >> >>Bury it back in the corner where it was? Duh?
>> >> >>
>> >> >>Donna
>> >> >>IL, Zone 5..
>> >> >
>> >> >jsinger@igc.org
>> >> >
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