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Re: Epsom Salts


are you ready??? From the "Old Farmers Almanac":
	Q I have heard that bananas or banana peels are good for rosed.
	  how does this work? 
	A Roses love bananas. The skins are high in calcium, magnesium,
                                                               sulfur, and
phosphates-all thing that roses like in their diet.  
         You can "serve" them in three ways: 1)Banana skin fillets laid 
         flat at the base of each rose plant 2) buried, one mushy banana
                        per plant.  3)fermented banana skin dole--chopped
skins steeped          14 days in a sealed jar of water.
So there you are.
L


At 03:13 PM 11/10/97 -0400, you wrote:
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>I've read over and over about the benefits of sprinkling epsom salts around
>the roses in the spring.  Does anyone else know of any other organic helps
>such as this?  I've seen some other crazy sounding concoctions using beer,
>tobacco, etc..  Do these brews (har, har) seem to be beneficial to the
>plants?  What are the benefits, if any?
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>Side question:  would it be beneficial for the perennial companion plants
>around my roses to receive a sprinkling of the epsom salts as well?  Why or
>why not?
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>Still another side question:  I've also read where the shrub roses do not
>need a lot of fertilizing like the hybrids, if any at all.  Is this a good
>rule of thumb, or should I do the monthly fertilizing thing like the
>others?
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>Again, thanks so much in advance!!
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