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Last spring our St Augustine was taken over by chickweed and I thought I'd lose my beautiful yard. I pulled weeds for months and finally the grass became thick again. I was told to use a pre emergent to avoid the same problem for next year. Do you recommend the corn meal gluten? Where do I purchase it? I don't see it on the garden ville website. Also, I have many roses. How often should I feed them and what do you suggest to keep the leaves healthy and dark green? I only want safe products since I have pets and many birds in my yard.
9/30/200811:52:10 AM Link 0 comments | Add comment
Yes, Garden-Ville sells corn gluten meal. Because G-V does not manufacture corn gluten, we do not list it on our website. Corn gluten meal should be applied when the weed you are trying to prevent from seeding in your lawn has brown seeds on it. Apply a solid fine layer on your grass and the seeds that fall in the corn gluten meal will not be able to form roots. Corn gluten meal will also act as a nitrogen fertilizer for your lawn. Corn gluten meal does nothing for existing weeds in the yard.
Garden-Ville has a superb Rose food for your roses. The food was formulated by Malcolm Beck and the San Antonio Rosarians. The primary nutrients are derived from cottonseed meal, alfalfa meal, fish meal, kelp meal, guano meal, molasses and greensand. I enjoy this product on all my flowering, fruiting and vegetable plants. All ingredients are natural.
I live in central Floridaand have had roses for the past six years. When I arrived here in Nov., I cut back the roses as usual. Usually they come back quickly, but this year they look sad with little green growth which looks stunted. Can I save these roses and how Thank you
2/26/200811:46:04 AM Link 0 comments | Add comment
Hi Fran,Pruning roses in Central Texas in done in February. The day we tell everyone is easy to remeber, Valentine's Day. Your roses were pruned a little too early and that is why they are not leafing out quite yet. A good rule of thumb is clip back no more than a third of the bush, encouraging full folliage. The roses should pop out in March, once this takes place feeding them Garden-Ville Rose Food. For now, you can water your roses with seaweed deeply every 7 days, this helps the plant pop out of shock by nuturing it with sea minerals.
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