If you’re asking whether you can feed roses with tomato feed, you’ve probably run out of your standard rose fertiliser, but you’ve spotted your tomato feed lying around, and you’re wondering if you can use this instead! Or perhaps you’re looking to save money and wondering whether one type of fertiliser can work miracles for…
Gardening Tips
How to Get Roses to Grow Fast
You might know all too well roses can take quite a long time to flourish and grow. While not as difficult to grow as new gardeners tend to assume, roses do take some patience. So if you wondering how to get roses to grow fast, you’ll want to start by aiming to grow roses from…
How to Protect Roses From Squirrels
If your squirrels are eating, stealing, or damaging your roses, you’re going to want to protect them. After all, roses aren’t always the easiest plant to grow – you don’t want your hard work going to waste, or your beautiful roses vanishing overnight! To protect roses from squirrels, you can use natural preventatives placed strategically…
How to Grow Roses from Cuttings Without Rooting Hormone!
Growing roses from cuttings is also much more straightforward and suitable for beginner gardeners than growing roses from seed! It’s normal to use a rooting hormone to allow the roots to ‘take hold’ and flourish when following this method of growing roses – you can purchase chemical rooting hormones or make your own natural, all…
Is Aloe Vera a Rooting Hormone?
Typical rooting hormones encourage a plant to take root and grow, by giving it a blast of the minerals / vitamins / materials needed to thrive. However if you’re not keen on pouring a load of chemicals into your garden, you’re probably looking for an organic alternative. Aloe Vera is used as a medicinal plant…
How To Make An Aphid Spray At Home Step-By-Step
How to Make an Aphid Spray at Home (step-by-step)! Arrrghhh aphids are the bane of my life! You know that feeling when you suddenly spot that suspiciously curled up leaf, yellowing slightly too perhaps… You observe it underneath, and sure enough, there is a swarm of tiny dots lining the entire underside, and the other…
Why Are My Knockout Roses Leggy?
I’ve been eyeing up more rose varieties to plant in my dream garden, and I came across a typical problem that knockout roses have – why are my knockout roses leggy?! Knockout roses may become leggy due to lack of sunlight, overwatering, and poor pruning. A knockout rose needs around 6-8 hours sunlight a day…