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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

NEW BEDFORD — The city's premier fish fertilizer company is doubling the footprint of its Cape Street plant, and also hopes to double its business in the years to come. The New Bedford-based AMT ...