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What plant foods do you use?

What plant foods do you use and have you had good, medium or poor results?

Do you make your own? have a favourite brand? or do you use a combination of different ones?

As I try to be as organic as possible I make my own concoctions from collected seaweed, comfrey, nettles and horse manure mostly🧙🏻‍♂️
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"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I use Tomorite for tomatoes/chili/peppers.
    Miracle Grow for cucumbers/courgettes
    Miracle Grow Azalea feed on blueberries
    and seaweed extract on just about everything.

    I generally spread about 1 ton of manure (and my home-made compost) on beds and borders, so plants don't really need anything extra

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Hampshire_HogHampshire_Hog Posts: 1,089
    Your like me @Pete.8  I put just over a ton of horse manure on my allotment, I use the feeds for the poly tunnel veg and the troughs and pots at home.

    "You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Seems to work for me HH.
    My soil is quite good, but lacks organic matter in one part of the garden. I had 25ton topsoil to make raised beds etc a couple of years ago. It was good soil, but being just silt (from washing sugar beet) it was devoid of life so needs lots of organic matter - I'm getting there.
    I have 3 x 1cu metre compost bins, which make good stuff, so I hope to be self-sufficient in a couple of years.

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I see a theme emerging here: the gardener feeds the soil, the soil feeds the plants.

    I have just reminded myself of Rambling Sid Rumpo.  For the under-60's, Sid was a character voiced by Kenneth  Williams on the BBC radio comedy "Round the Horne".  No matter what question was put to Sid, he always began his answer, in a yokel accent:  "Well, Oi think the aarnswer lois in the soil."
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    But I'm still not sure what 'bulging lallies' are.....
    My parents used to giggle away at that show, I had no idea what they were giggling about.
    I did buy the series on cassette many years ago - classic!

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • cornellycornelly Posts: 970
    Garden compost on the potato plot, which alternates over three years, and leaf mold with my own compost of garden soil and leaf mold in containers, except hanging baskets where bought compost with season long fertilizers are used
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