I use tomato feed for everything that flowers or produces fruit except the citrus plants which have their own feed. Never looked at the ratios for that tho. What I do find odd is not being able to find liquid tomato feed and seaweed fertiliser is as rare as hen's teeth.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Keep going punkdoc, I think a lot of our body clocks are messed. Most days, I dont actually "know" what day it is, with Hubby being at home, its thrown me. Haha, I am sure I told you I dont understand metric, as well as being techno c--p. A couple of years ago I ordered 12 mtrs of fine netting, wanting 12 feet!! I am gradually using it all. I do now VERY carefully read the small print. I put on here a while back I hadnt managed to get any flour for 6 weeks, someone mentioned Amazon, got on to my account, flour £6 a 1.5kg bag, bad enough, then the popstage £72.00, thats correct, thats not a typo!! Hubby wanted heads for his sonic toothbrush (yeah he cleans his teeth with a hedgehog, brilliant for food stuck) went to the place on EB I got the last ones, and they were also £72. postage, got identical ones postage free.
I have never seen seaweed fertiliser here, only nettle @Obelixx, They seem to have gone more for the granule tomato feed here rather than the liquid also.
Between Luçon, La Roche and Les Sables there are several garden centres I can and do pop into @floralies One of them had an incredible range of purines - nettle, horsetail (good fungicide apparently), comfrey, dandelion and so on but I can't remember which one and I was so boggled by the range in our early days here that I didn't look for seaweed, not thinking it would be a problem so near the coast. I might end up having to collect some and make my own.
I tried diluting that granular tomato feed but it's hard to dissolve and smells bad. Now I just scatter it about the base of the plants and then water it in. No shortage of nettles here and I'm going to grow a whole bed of comfrey in the veg plot.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Just been supervising the under gardener, fair to say a little disharmony ensued. I suppose I am just too used to gardening by myself. Couldn't sleep last night and ended up watching Philadelphia, what a great actor Tom Hanks is.
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Hi folks, That fire looks awful. Glad to see things are coming along @Liriodendron you'll soon have things ship-shape. Lovely rose, I've noticed blackspot on mine and a few spots of rust. I never get rust and only get a very small amount of blackspot at the end of the season. Maybe it's the mild winter that has affected the roses, or maybe the lack of pollution due to shutdown.
We have planned a BBQ this afternoon with Secondborn and the boys but the heavens have just opened despite the BBC telling me that not rain forecast this afternoon just the chance of a light shower this morning. I have new edging shears to try out so I hope it stops soon.
My OH doesn’t really understand gardening, he was born on a farm and farmed best part of his life, if it’s not productive, it’s not much good, but, he’s quite got into recently since he’s been home, he knows now what dead stuff to put in the compost heap, he used to asked me which weeds can go on, and I can safely leave him out there on his own. He’s good at weeding and asks if not sure.
He does tend to step back on something by accident, can’t moan at that, I do it sometimes.
As we’ll be moving at some point, he’s just asked, ‘shall we do gardening or sort the loft’ never though the day would come where he’d actually ask that question.😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
If it's wet @Lyn, do the loft. If not, do the garden, especially saving divisions, cuttings, babies for the new place. OH has advanced as far as asking what he should leave and what can come out and has now learned (I hope) not to weed without asking.
@floralies - he once killed off a clematis montana just by commenting that it had taken its time covering the shed. Next day it had gone from glorious full flowering to totally dead. He is forbidden to comment on plants within their hearing.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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I tried diluting that granular tomato feed but it's hard to dissolve and smells bad. Now I just scatter it about the base of the plants and then water it in. No shortage of nettles here and I'm going to grow a whole bed of comfrey in the veg plot.
Just been supervising the under gardener, fair to say a little disharmony ensued. I suppose I am just too used to gardening by myself.
Couldn't sleep last night and ended up watching Philadelphia, what a great actor Tom Hanks is.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
He does tend to step back on something by accident, can’t moan at that, I do it sometimes.
As we’ll be moving at some point, he’s just asked, ‘shall we do gardening or sort the loft’ never though the day would come where he’d actually ask that question.😀
@floralies - he once killed off a clematis montana just by commenting that it had taken its time covering the shed. Next day it had gone from glorious full flowering to totally dead. He is forbidden to comment on plants within their hearing.