Lots of water .... two buckets full two or three times a week ... and a good mulch of organic material (well rotted manure/ soil conditioner/ well made garden compost) to improve the water retention of the soil.
We had a drought last year and a very dry spring ... the soil below the surface is very dry (vegetable farmers are very worried) and a lot of shrubs and trees are struggling ... that is a large rose bush and it takes a lot of water to produce flowers.
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A supplementary question. The fertiliser has arrived and I want to use my Evergreen spreader to put it down.
The instructions on the bag refer to industrial size spreaders - what is the best/easiest/only way to set my spreader to the indicated amount per square metre?
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We had a drought last year and a very dry spring ... the soil below the surface is very dry (vegetable farmers are very worried) and a lot of shrubs and trees are struggling ... that is a large rose bush and it takes a lot of water to produce flowers.
The instructions on the bag refer to industrial size spreaders - what is the best/easiest/only way to set my spreader to the indicated amount per square metre?