Re: Ferilizing Roses

**"rosenlund" rosenlund@transport.com>**

Wonderful Donna,

'Sally Holmes' is a beautiful thing.

Fish Emulsion, even the deoderized stuff, is nasty smelling. For the first
few hours my dog go's crazy thinking she had a treat coming, so eventually
(she's not allowed in the garden) I found it easier just to give her some
pig
ears after I was done packing around buckets of the nasty stuff.

In a few days or so the smell is nearly gone, or is that my nose!   LOL!

I love what compost and fish emulsion do for my garden.  For years I used
another synthetic foliar fertilizer and though it produced wonder flushes
of growth and roses, as it was time to need another spraying the roses
looked almost sickly and desparate for more food,.... dependent really.
With fish emulsion I do not have that.  They get less of a "burst" and
because they are feed more naturally they seem to have better "staying
power".   I'm sold on it.

Biggest draw back is not so much the smell, but the packing about of buckets
as the fish emulsion is watered down and poured on the roses.  When you get
over 100 roses it's a workout that my back doesn't always like.  Perhaps I
should try a handtruck with a large sprayer, I would love to apply the fish
emulsion as a foliar feeding, which is suppose to be even more helpful to
the roses.

PS... Everyone into organics should have Liz Druitt's book  _"The Organic
Rose Garden"_  it's my favorite all time rose book.  An excellent how too.

                ~Carleen~
Keeper of Sheep and Old Roses

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