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Placing Wood's Mold under Rose
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Posted by Zinia z7NC (My Page) on Fri, Aug 19, 05 at 16:07
I'm thinking that maybe it would be OK to scoop up some soil just under the loose leaves of the forest floor ("woods mold") to place around my Belinda's Dream, Salet and Queen Elizabeth.
My reasoning is: 1. free mycorrhizae (isn't it in leaf litter?) 2. will act as a mulch
Can anyone comment on this idea?
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RE: Placing Wood's Mold under Rose
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| If this isn't your forest, then leave it alone. You'd be robbing the trees and disturbing the natural recycling of nutrients that the tree depends on for it's own feeding. If these are your trees, then you'd have to weigh in on the fact of removing a desirable substance from them to give to another plant on your property. You'd then have to decide what to do for the tree that you robbed. Perhaps you'd mulch it with commercially available bagged or bulk mulch, or you'd grab some bagged raked leaves that the neighbors have left at the curb, but you'd need to replace the layer around the tree for it to maintain optimum health. A forest or tree recycles it's leaves/litter. And removing that from around the base leaves it in deficet mode where it needs additional supplied nutrients for optimal health and growth. Or, you could just purchase commercial mulch for your roses or use the free bagged leaves for them and leave the trees alone. Roses are such pigs that you'd have to rob a LOT of trees just to supply them with a minimal amount of mulch/organic matter. Since they are the unnatural ones in the ecosystem here, it's best to supply them in an unnatural fashion by supplying them with more organic matter than they actually produce as waste. Commercial mulch or organic amendments provide that "excess" that roses love. |
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