Banana peels add organic matter to the soil, but they don't provide enough nutrients for growing roses. Blood meal, fish emulsion, and bone meal are more ideal fertilizers for all kinds of roses.

New growth on your roses in March is a reminder that it is time to purchase fertilizer. That sounds easy enough until you face the bewildering number of choices on the nursery shelves: granular or ...

Fertilize roses starting in early to mid‑spring, once frost danger has passed and growth reaches ~6 inches. Continue feeding throughout the growing season—after each bloom cycle—with gradually reduced ...

When it comes to our rose gardens, many rosarians can relate to the motto “Go big or go home!” After all, we grow roses for their blooms, and we expect those blooms to be large, lustrous and abundant.

Want more flowers on your roses? If so then you need to provide an extra boost through fertilization. Proper fertilization develops strong, vigorous canes that will end in big fat, plump buds with ...

Bees are so important to our gardens. In Colorado, they pollinate our apples, pears, peaches, melons, cucumbers, sunflowers and squash. And without honey bees, we wouldn’t have almonds from California ...

Roses have always been a landscape staple. Who does not love a rose in bloom? The popularity of this timeless plant has been reinvented with the release of the common Knockout Rose. This variety ...

Green-thumb gardeners are likely familiar with fish emulsion, a nutrient-rich elixir that helps roses bloom and tomatoes zoom. Now, a group of government-funded Florida scientists are looking at using ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...