As a novice gardener, I'm frequently impressed much more than I "should" be by simple things. I've been reading up on foliar fertilization and thought to give it a go a little while back. Using 10-10-10 fertilizer seemed to encourage growth, but with changing seasons it can be tough to credit the fertilizer vs. the "rainy" season (that hasn't had much rain).

So I got some "Ever-Green" organic fertilizer and mixed up a dilute solution of 10-50-30 to see if we could get some super-flowers. That was about three weeks ago.

While it is true that there are now more blossoms than there were before, I'm pretty sure that we also had some of these plants blooming last year at this time of year (though not all). Did the fertilizer do it? I don't think it hurt, so we'll likely use it again. Heavily diluted organic fertilizer is unlikely to hurt my garden so if it made even two or three more blooms than not using it, that's good enough for me. Besides, getting out and spraying the foliar fertilizer is a relatively pleasant way to walk around the yard and look at stuff.

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