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Butterfly attracting kit for Jasmine?? Help please urgently!
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Posted by mightyfragrance (My Page) on Mon, May 7, 07 at 12:11
| I am a newbie and last week bought a new star jasmine plant in container. I was so happy when I saw new leaves & buds coming in my short care that I wanted to give it a boost. I was also concerned about its hardiness, so wanted to mulch it. I went to HD and got American heritage's Butterfly & hummingbird attracting kit. It is said to have seed, mulch, advanced soil watering technology, and I felt it might be my perfect answer. It was supposed to be sprinkled on the soil. But when I opened it is nothing but white rounded particles and not at all like that wood mulch I see everywhere! Now I am concerned if I did the right thing after all? if it is mulch in fact? if that seed might germinate and take away my jasmine's soil space!!? If I over-fertilized the jasmine plant, so it instead of boosting its sprits, I would kill the plant's new growth? Please please please advice me guys. BTW, I am not at all eager for any butterflies, but just a mulch. |
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RE: Butterfly attracting kit for Jasmine?? Help please urgently!
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- Posted by alys Zone 5/6 - MO (My Page) on
Thu, May 10, 07 at 13:20
| Not trying to be smart, but I'm afraid I don't understand why you bought something that is a "butterfly attracting kit" with seed if you don't want the seed to sprout and grow into flowers to attrack butterflies. Because that is clearly what that kit is for. The white balls are like little clay things that contain seed and fertilzer and also act as mulch. If you didn't use it I'd return it. If you did use it, I'd scoop it back off the soil and toss it or put it somewhere else. Go back to the store, go to the garden center and tell one of the guys you want to buy a small bag of plain old wood mulch, if that is what you want, and something that will be a good fertilizer for star jasmine. The employees in the garden center should be very helpful. Then just follow the directions on the package for ferilizer and spread the mulch over the soil. |
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