Episode: Three
Date: 22^nd March 2008
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane
Story Title: Growing Roses

Trevor shares some of his secrets on how to get the best results out of your roses as well as keeping them flourishing with fragrance and colour.

Featured Products

Yates Dynamic Lifter for Roses
A new formulation of Australia?s favourite organic-based plant food. Dynamic Lifter for Roses combines rich, composted chicken manure with all those extra nutrients that roses require for healthy growth.

• Added mineral nutrients to boost nutrient levels.
• Ideal balanced formula for promoting growth and flowering.
• Relatively high potassium level also improves disease resistance.
• Formula used in commercial agriculture for crops that have the same nutrient requirements for healthy growth and abundant flowering and fruiting (eg, strawberries).
• Chicken manure component encourages soil microbial activity and doesn?t depress pH.
• Pellets are dried before packing. This means that they release nutrients over a longer period (up to 2 months).

How It Works

• The major plant nutrients in Dynamic Lifter for Roses are blended together in a balanced ratio (10:4:12 - 10% nitrogen, 4% phosphorus and 12% potassium.) that?s just about ideal for promoting good growth, strong disease resistance and lots and lots of luscious flowering. The formulation also includes many other valuable plant nutrients, while the organic base encourages rich, healthy soil that?s full of natural biological activity.

Directions for use

• Apply (at rates below) around drip zone & water well
• Roses (garden bed) – 2 level scoops
• Potted Roses (300mm pot) – ½ level scoop
• Potted Roses (400mm or larger pot) – 1 level scoop
• Flowering Annuals & Perennials – 3 level scoops per m2
• Small to medium flowering shrubs – 2 level scoops per m2
• Flowering Trees – 3 level scoops per m2

Yates Rose Gun ? Ready to Use

• Controls various insects, mites and diseases on roses and ornamentals.
• Controls the most common rose pest & disease problems.
• Highly effective combination of a low toxic synthetic pyrethoid insecticide and a systemic broad spectrum fungicide.
• The insecticide works via both contact and stomach action, and the fungicide is absorbed into the plant's system and is translocated around the plant to control disease - works from the inside out.
• Controls mites and whitefly.
• Easy-to-use trigger pack - no mixing required, no measuring, no mess.
• Contains a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide and a systemic fungicide.

Directions for use

• Spray foliage thoroughly, including the undersides of foliage. Start spraying when new shoots emerge in spring, or at first sign of insects or disease. Repeat at 14 day intervals. Two spotted mites may require more frequent applications.

Precautions

• Do not apply if rain is expected within 24 hours. Do not spray when shade temperatures are near 30°C or higher. Do not spray when the soil is dry and plants are suffering from moisture stress. Avoid contact with eyes and skin.

Yates Thrive Soluble Flower & Fruit Plant Food

• A fast acting, complete fertiliser ideal for feeding a wide range of flowering and fruiting plants. Feeds through both the foliage and the roots. Specially formulated blend of nutrients, rich in phosphorus and potassium and trace elements, to encourage prolific flowering and fruiting.
• A trusted, safe, easy-to-use formula.
• Ideal for feeding indoor & outdoor plants.
• Promotes prolific flowering and abundant fruit.
• High in potassium which promotes strong fruiting and flowering, as well as all other nutrients required for healthy plant development.

Directions for use

• For most plants dissolve one measuring spoon (8g) into 4.5 litres of water.

Precautions

• Do not apply on hot days. Always dissolve in water before use. Use Thrive All Purpose for leafy vegetables, lawns, ferns, palms, indoor plants and shrubs.

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