Beginner Gardening: Clematis Newbie, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Yes, it is. It gets maddening to have shelves loaded with individual fertilizers for roses, tomatoes, rhododendrons, etc. Try to buy products that can be used for more than one type of plant. Most plants love compost, manure and Epsom Salts (very inexpensive even at your local drug store).

You can use Google to locate a nearby store that carries Chickity Doo Doo. It's light in weight, granulated manure. So much easier for me to use than those very heavy 40 pound bags of wet manure.

Many plants do not require constant feeding so three or four feedings a year (not late in the season) would be fine. Mine get one spring feeding and then it's up to Mother Nature.