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Farm-Fos-44®

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"Dear Tom

I write with an endorsement for your product known to me as Farm-Fos-44, but now on sale to the public as Uncle Tom's® Rose Tonic. This will be my 8th year of use. As a Rose Breeder and a countryside lover I try to be as environmentally friendly as humanly possible and only use products that I feel will be safe.

For the last 10 years or so Europe has been increasingly attacked by a relatively new disease on roses – downy mildew. This disease looks like blackspot, but has a browner blotch. It attacks in mild temperatures and high humidity and can cause total defoliation in 3 days. My experience has shown that using Farm-Fos-44 (Uncle Tom's® Rose Tonic) every 3 weeks stops the disease almost totally. A spray in April is very important. If you don't like doing any spraying you can use a watering can once a month which will largely keep your roses healthy. As well as checking downy mildew it also stops blackspot.

Farm-Fos-44 is essentially a foliar feed, but in my view is very effective at protecting plants from damaging diseases. I don't know quite how it works, but the important thing is that it does! My trials have now been replicated by many others of the British rose industry with similar successful results.

The final bonus is that the foliar feeding of the product will dramatically enhance the growth and the flowering of your roses.

Yours sincerely
Chris Warner – International Rose Breeder, Newport, Shropshire."
"Dear Tom

I have been growing and showing roses for over 40 years, and over this period of time I have tried many different products on my roses, some good and some bad, but I can honestly say that not one of them has had a more profound effect on them than, Farm-Fos 44.
Bed of the H.T. Selfridges
I first started to use Farm-Fos 44 about 3 years ago, when I was having a problem with Downey Mildew, which I eventually eliminated from my roses, with the result being some pretty tired looking bushes, after consulting with some of my commercial rose producing friends, i decided to try Farm-Fos 44, and use it every 14 days.

That first year the results being a noticeably increase in health, growth, and vigour, which can only have only have come from the use of Farm-Fos 44, it being the only new edition to my spraying programme.
Bowl of 18 H.T.s at R.N.R.S. National Show
Over the last 3 years I have continued to use it every 2 weeks and my bushes just get better and better.

I have won the R.N.R.S. Amateur Championship for the last 16 years, and have never had better quality blooms than those produced over the period that I have been using Farm-Fos 44.

Tony with his bowl of 12 floribunda Fred Loads, which was judged to be the best exhibit in the floribunda classes and also the best exhibit in the show at the Lakeland Rose Show in 2011.
I would recommend to anyone who is interested in growing good roses to try Farm-Fos 44 or the retail version Uncle Tom's® Rose Tonic, both of which are superb products.

I have won the R.N.R.S. Amateur Championship for the last 16 years, and have never had better quality blooms than those produced over the period that I have been using Farm-Fos 44.

Tony Bracegirdle S.M. R.N.R.S.
R.N.R.S. National Champion 1996 – 2011

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About Farm-Fos

Farm-Fos Ltd was formed in 2001 to provide a professional service to UK horticulture. With the withdrawal of many conventional chemicals by EU legislation, alternative, safe products have to be found. We look upon this as a challenge and it is something we enjoy doing and at which we are proving successful.
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