Its time to trim Roses and clean up my flower beds. What can I use to perk up my dirt? Chicken manure or??

I don't know where you are, but I would not do much cleanup on roses until March. If you cut too much and have a hard freeze, you can lose up to a foot more on the branches. I would get a soil building compost and go easy on chicken maunure. There are specific rose and flower fertilizers to add, just follow the directions on the box. Look in any nursury or big box store and there should be someone in the garden department to advise you. I work in a nursery and some of the saddest roses I have seen were pruned too early and overfertilized to the point of being burned.

Its time to trim Roses and clean up my flower beds. What can I use to perk up my dirt? Chicken manure or??
Now is not the time to amend your soil. For now just cover the areas around your roses and other plants with a few inches of compost. Come spring you can just dig it in to the soil. That would be the time to add fertilizers or anything else.
Reply:Try going to a garden shop where you can buy bagged nutrients for the soil


There are lots of different choices: peat moss, fertilizer, maybe even a bit of mulch, and manure


even try just saving lots of old scraps live fruit rinds, eggshells, and almost anything else organic


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Just go to a garden store and look around, or ask a person who works there, or even another customer, whoever shops there is probably knowledgeable, but yes, chicken manure will probably work
Reply:Rabbit dung has always worked well for me.
Reply:Like the orange peels-- bananas really! perk up roses-just throw the peels around the plants-- they turn brown and disappear- I also crush egg shells and throw them around the plants-- I haven't gotten my compost started so I'm going half way.


good luck
Reply:This may not work but its a good suggestion. I once saw my neighbor throwing orange peels ( the skins and some of the juices,) into her flowerbeds and my goodness, she has the most beautiful garden in town. Supposedly the nutrients from the skin makes the dirt easier to work with
Reply:If you want it to be cheap but as effective as the stuff you buy at the store. Try Rabbit manure! My Sister-in-law breeds rabbits and has sold A LOT for that purpose. But this is one of the best "over all" fertilizer you can put in your grown!


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