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  • From: robert schuler <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Perennial/Annual sales
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:01:20 -0400

> Million bells and geraniums mix together about as well as oil and water.
> They are incompatable. MB likes acid soil and a lot of iron, geraniums like
> high ph and die when treated with iron its hard to have it both ways and
> grow
> a nice combo pot. MB are hot sellers in 10" or larger hanging pots, they
> need a lot of fertilizer and root rot in the blink of an eye. MB loves full
> hot sun but would need to be watered three times a day, miss watering a day
> and they die. I want to tell people to put them in part sun, only problem is
> almost nobody has any part sun around here...Bob.

Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.

>

>
> Superbells, Million Bells... what is their fertility issue? I had several
> interplanted with geraniums that just went disgusting. torenia... omg why
> do suppliers interplant that will full sun plants? It just cooks!
>
> I had others hung in filtered light that still look great. OK, so with
> torenia light is certainly an issue. With Million Bells, what is their
> need? Is it heat or is it light?





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