Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire
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Jun 2023
9:50pm, 11 Jun 2023
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Ocelot Spleens
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Jun 2023
11:27am, 12 Jun 2023
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Curly45
We still haven't had any rain, hoping for some today but blue skies at the moment. Some of our roses have blackened leaves is this a pest I should know about. Plants seem healthy overall (loads of flowers), but small bits of them have issues. I don't particularly like roses as I think of them as being hard work so they may not be staying too many years anyway 😂 |
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Jun 2023
11:35am, 12 Jun 2023
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Ocelot Spleens
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Jun 2023
11:35am, 12 Jun 2023
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Ocelot Spleens
Not hard work at all, feed and prune. They'll put up with any weather.
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Jun 2023
12:40pm, 12 Jun 2023
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Curly45
Yes that Ocelot Spleens. We don't use any herbicides etc so will have to just prune back hard later in the year and see what happens. |
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Jun 2023
12:57pm, 12 Jun 2023
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Ocelot Spleens
Yes. Could be bad news. I had a tiny bit of on mine two summers ago. I cleared things around them away, just a little, but I think the hot summer last year and dry this year have helped....
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Jun 2023
1:55pm, 12 Jun 2023
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Hanneke
Just feed them! Get an organic sea weed based liquid rose feed and water them with it. Black spit only develops when a rose is under strain. Roses are hungry plants! I give them lots a food in the form of home made compost and liquid feed. I used to give them blood and bone meal twice a year, but new neighbour's dogs would come and eat that, causing destruction, so that put a stop to that...
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Jun 2023
2:24pm, 12 Jun 2023
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Fragile Do Not Bend
My roses get some black spot most years but I’ve never done anything about it and the plants seem fine. I’ve never even fed them 😅
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Jun 2023
2:28pm, 12 Jun 2023
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Fragile Do Not Bend
My mangetout are flowering and the flowers are so pretty! I don’t know why I’ve not tried growing them before - just as pretty as sweet peas but with the added bonus of food.  |
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Jun 2023
4:02pm, 12 Jun 2023
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Hanneke
I used to grow those on the screen between my and my neighbours balcony in my flat back in the Netherlands. So pretty and as you say: bonus food!
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