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A Cup of Tea with your Fuchsias
Have you had a tea with your fuchsias? I'm doing so, and what I'm doing
exactly is to share my green tea with Viper Vale as an experiment.
From All About Fuchsias, I have learned triphyllas tend to drop their lower leaves, which
can be dealt with by feeding nitrogen-rich fertilizer in early stages. When I read this, I
remembered I had once read interesting comments in a gardening book: green tea is
effective to prevent the lower leaves of chrysanthemums from dropping. Mums are show
plants here like roses and fuchsias in your country. The author of the comments is an
expert in growing mums for contests. According to his comments, he brought several pots of
mums into his workplace to make his staff enjoy the flowers. As he grew them, he noticed
these mums hadn't dropped their lower leaves. He had been giving green tea, instead of
water, which was left after staff meetings.
I asked one of my friends about the effect. The friend is a farmer. The farmer kindly
asked another farmer producing mums and passed me the information he had got. According to
his comments, green tea is known to be effective among mum experts, but the effect is just
slow and moderate.
I think it interesting. If green tea also works on fuchsias, it can be used as an aid to
prevent the lower leaves from dropping.
The season changes rapidly in March and April. Spring runs at full speed and passes the
baton to early summer. Gardening shops have started selling Petunias. I'm painting
"Sunokos", to be laid on the concrete floor of my veranda to reduce the radiant
heat from the floor and heat build-up within the veranda. A Sunoko is made of wooden
boards and feet. You can see one behind the Vibernum in the picture I sent. It may look
like a palette or large draining board to you. I hope they serve to improve the
environment for my fuchsias.
YK (Japan)
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