How to improve your summer corn harvest

1. Feed roses within the next few weeks for abundant fall flowering. Use a balanced plant food formula that has all three main ingredients – nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium – indicated in a number formula such as 8-12-4. This tells the percentage of each ingredient in order. For roses, use any brand of plant food that has all three numbers, with the middle number highest. Also – but only if you did not get around to applying it in spring – scatter a quarter cup of Eps