Monthly Archives: October 2009

Fall Application of Plant Food

Helpful information for growing beautiful plants

Monty’s Plant Food application usage in the fall will lead to healthier plants and more vibrant blooms. The fall usually has homeowners slowing down on fertilization of their plants. The rule has been do not over fertilize before winter because the plants will produce new growth that cannot withstand freezing temperatures. This statement should be recognized for the amount of nitrogen and fertilizers that must breakdown before absorption takes place. Monty’s fall formula will provide needed elements to prepare for winter as well as enhance the blooms as well as strengthen the stems. Monty’s 2-15-15 provides the needed nutrients as well as the ability to absorb external nutrients that the plant cannot normally absorb because of the structure that it may be in. A treatment of Monty’s Liquid Carbon Soil Conditioner will greatly benefit lawns and gardens.

The commercial growers can benefit from this product because of the tremendous growth that will result when using on Pansies, Chrysanthemums and other fall blooming flowers. The product can be used by foliar and/or root drench. The application of this product will enhance the grower’s ability to have a premium plant that will generate highly levels of income.

When selling bulbs our product will provide the essential nutrients to bulbs newly planted as well as established. Monty’s Plant Food will increase root development as well as root surface absorption. These applications will assure that the day lily grower will begin establishing stronger vibrant blooms throughout the following season.

A Rose by any other name, just wouldn’t be the same

A Rose hybridizer just paid Monty’s Plant Food Company and Monty Justice the highest compliment possible.  They named a rose after him.

Monty Justice poses with the latest edition to his garden, a hybrid officially named "Monty's Joy"

Monty poses with the latest edition to his garden, a hybrid officially name "Monty's Joy".

When anyone hybridizes a new variety of rose, they get the privilege of naming it.  Many times they will name it after a celebrity, a meaningful person in their life, an exotic place, or something else of significance to them. 

Well, when one hybridizer recently revealed their new hybrid, they name it “Monty’s Joy”.  A fitting tribute for the man who has dedicated so much of his life to beautifying our lives with roses. Here is Monty posing with one of his eponymous roses.

In case you are wondering “Monty’s Joy” is a mauve colored mini-flora rose.  One place you can purchase them is here at K&M you will see the cultivar listed on page three of their offerings;  the phone number is right up top.

I can’t let it go without saying that Monty would want you to know, Monty’s real “Joy” is his lovely wife, Becky.
 
Oh, and if you are wanting to get this or any rose transplanted successfully.  I suggest checking out the mymontys.com website for our gardening tips, our video on preparing bare-root roses, and to learn more about Monty’s 4-15-12 fertilizer which will likely end any evidence of transplant shock in your flower beds.

Monty takes a new award

Those who are fans of the products and the plants have DENALI ROSEalso become a fan of the man, Monty Justice. So, since I just found out some exciting news about our favorite rosarian, I thought i would share it with you.  Monty just won, ‘King of the Rose’ at the Tenarky district competition.  He won the award with his exhibition of a Denali Rose, pictured here. (BTW…too much PBS for me apparently but Denali is a word from the Inuit peoples in Alsaka; it means ‘The High One’ and was used as a name for one of their gods and for the mountain which ultimately was renamed for President McKinley).

After speaking with Monty, he told me he was headed to a competition in Nashville this weekend.  He did tell me what type of rose he would be displaying.  BUT, I think I will keep that to myself.  (wouldn’t want to tip off the other exhibitors).  Good Luck Monty!

On a related note, he also just won the judges class at a Rose Show in Evansville, IN.  As a judge at the show he was not allowed to enter in the standard competition, but the judges have their own class and our Monty took top prize.  Monty told me “When you are going up against other judges, everyone knows the right things to do in terms of presentation, so it is always a very tough class to win.”