Acidic water 1 gallon vinager/one tablespoon water. It doesn't seem like much but vinager is used as an herbacide in high concentration.

easy mistake -- I'm sure pjtexgirl means 1 gallon water with 1 tablespoon vinegar

Damn dyslexia! Thanks :).

Could some one that knows how to use vinegar water send me an email telling me how? Can this be used in the current 103 degree weather? I normally don't fertilize in the heat.

Thanks for your help.

I think the vinegar water is to help acidify the soil so nutrients that are already there are more available to acid loving plants. I've never used it, but I'd say just water with it. One tablespoon to a gal. of water is a very mild solution that couldn't hurt the plants.

PJ, my dyslexia must coincide with yours because I read it as you meant it :-)

We dyslexics must untie! (old joke couldn't help it)

Hahaha! Cute!

I wonder if you might be able to put in a hose sprayer like Miracle Grow? Not with fertilizer but just to add it faster to so many plants.

Calverttx, I don't think I'd spray it on the leaves in this heat but using a hose end sprayer would be faster. I used compost tea a couple of weeks ago as a foliar feed and the foliage looks crispy now.

vinegar you gotta pay for. Get the guys to pee underneath the plants (or better, into a half filled watering can.)

Dog urine doesn't help my inferno strip plants. I don't know about human urine tho.

Fertilizing in high heat with anything concentrated or not organic in origin will saturate the area with salts and possibly kill the plant. Rule of thumb is not to fertilize stressed plants.

I bought two Russian Hollyhocks from Garden Crossings this spring and have two lovely plants that are about to take over my garden (10-inch leaves.) But neither has put out a bloom stalk.

Iknow they are biennual so should I wait for blooms next year? HELP!