The best thing you can do for your garden is improve your soil and that is best done with annual dollops of organic matter such as compost, manure, leaf mold and maybe some sand or fine grit if you need to improve drainage in clay soil. If the soil is impoverished, like Lyn's after conifers, then giving a boost with pelleted chicken manure or BFB is a good thing to do for a few years. These two are also useful for fruit and veg which make high demands on soil fertility.
When starting off new roses and clems I also give them a handful of specialist fertiliser and scatter microrrhizal fungae on their roots at planting time. Same for new shrubs.
The general principle is to emulate nature where falling leaves and rotting stems form non woody plants naturally fall to the soil and are broken down by organisms to release nutrients to the soil.
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hi, does anyone know if I can use evergreen autumn care on my lawn in spring please.
Not really philip, different balance of nutrients.
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i did wonder punkdoc,, thanx for getting back to me,appreciate it.
This research says fbb is beneficial
http://www.agriculturejournals.cz/publicFiles/107159.pdf
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The best thing you can do for your garden is improve your soil and that is best done with annual dollops of organic matter such as compost, manure, leaf mold and maybe some sand or fine grit if you need to improve drainage in clay soil. If the soil is impoverished, like Lyn's after conifers, then giving a boost with pelleted chicken manure or BFB is a good thing to do for a few years. These two are also useful for fruit and veg which make high demands on soil fertility.
When starting off new roses and clems I also give them a handful of specialist fertiliser and scatter microrrhizal fungae on their roots at planting time. Same for new shrubs.
The general principle is to emulate nature where falling leaves and rotting stems form non woody plants naturally fall to the soil and are broken down by organisms to release nutrients to the soil.