Garden Time with Mike Ventura

How to grow healthier camellia's and azalea's, enhancing plant and soil health care part 2


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How to encourage healthier camellia's and azaleas. Applying phosphorous to enhance flower and root development. Use soil conditioner from Live Earth in conjunction with bone meal to enhance plant health care.

Do not apply any nitrogen fertilizers to either the azalea's or camellia's. 

Other beneficial cultural practices include, but no limited to:

Application of mulch on the soil around the base of the plants

Irrigation management, use drip irrigation as compared to spray head irrigation. 

Do not prune the crowns of either the camellia's or azaleas's now, the shrubs are producing flower buds. Pruning now, would remove the flower buds. The only pruning that is to be done now is only  remove dead wood from the interior of  either the azalea's or camellia's.


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