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Pansy Mate® written by: Bill Bricker back to Garden Know How Index The pansy is one of the strongest and most durable flowers we know of and will thrive in most climates for one or more seasons. It’s early bloom will bring spring fever to most of us during the cold winter months. No matter how much snow or ice, you can rest assured when it melts the smiling face of the delightful flower will chase away your cold, moody feelings The pansy is a glutton for food and guzzler of water. In order to satisfy her appetite you must feed her constantly. There are many fertilizers, which she will respond to and we have tried them all. However, we were not satisfied and were driven to develop one especially suited to her taste. We have known for many years that she loves organic nitrogen in the form of blood, composted manure and leaf mold. Our old southern recipe uses these two items as our basic building material. Our formula is our secret, however, we can tell you it’s a combination of our Compostost®, which contains two manures, blood meal; granite meal plus cricket manure and lime. The recipe above will make your pansies teacup size with the short, stocky growth and they will bloom throughout the season without having to remove the seed pod (deadheading). Our growing advice is simple. Enrich your soil with Compostost® or your own compost to a depth of six inches, water the bed thoroughly and allow a day or so for the soil to rest. Add 4 pounds of PansyMate® to a 50 square feet and work into the top of the soil. Again water in thoroughly, wait several hours or over night and plant the pansies at the level they were grown, insuring no soil covers the stem of the plant. Water in well and mulch with your favorite mulch. We love the elite of all mulches, which is cypress chip. This is a step many gardeners overlook and is very important anywhere, but even more so in the northern climates where snow is frequent. The pansy is a tough “ombrey” but will do so much better if given a blanket to prevent extreme changes in the soil temperature. Follow our advice, use plenty of compost, water and feed once per month with PansyMate® (one tablespoon per plant) and you too can have our favorite flower almost all year long up north, and during fall, winter and spring in the West and Southwest. If you are not completely surprised and satisfied with our PansyMate®, your money will be refunded without question. You owe it to yourself and your beautiful pansies to try our old southern recipe – PansyMate®. |
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