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can I feed roses tomatoes?
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Posted by steveandjoy z10 BGI (My Page) on Thu, Mar 2, 06 at 20:10
| I usually give my roses a banana garlic smoothie that I would prepare in my blender for two reasons - the insects don't like garlic and the roses love the potassium in bananas.
Question: I have a few old tomatoes in the fridge and did a search on the nutritional values to see if I may have been able to use them. They seem to be high in potassium. I pulled the following off the internet:
.... One medium whole tomato contains a mere 25 calories and only a trace of fat. It yields 273 mg potassium, 23.5 mg vitamin C, 766 IU vitamin A, 1.3 g dietary fiber, 5.7 g carbohydrates, and 29.5 mg phosphorus.
The 273mg of potassium really has me quite interested.
Anyone ever put tomatoes to their rose bushes? Do you think there would be any harm?
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RE: can I feed roses tomatoes?
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| Not intentionally, but one year I had a cherry tomato plant that had some fruit left on it by winter and a storm blew off the rest into my rose bed. The next year, I had a lot of volunteer tomato plants in the bed. Didn't see much difference in the roses. I would say to compost the tomatoes first to make sure they don't sprout (but even composters have the same problem with volunteers in the compost bin). |
RE: can I feed roses tomatoes?
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Those nutrients in the tomatoes probably would only be made available to the roses if you had sufficient levels of organic matter in the soil so the soil bacteria would make those nutrients available, and if that happened the soil nutrients would be enough in balance that the tomatoes probably would make little difference.
If there are insufficient levels of organic matter in your soil and little bacterial activity those nutrients may take so long to become available as to be next to usless this growing season. |
RE: can I feed roses tomatoes?
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| On the other hand, if you make a tomato smoothie and add that to your compost pile, you eliminate the problem of the seeds sprouting in your rose beds, add the moisture and nutrients to your compost to speed the process. Can't hurt. Seamommy |
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