I grow a lot of my plants in pots and prefer to mix well rotted horse manure into the compost when planting. I would only feed ericaceous plants with a liquid feed. Maybe a hanging basket if it looked a bit “off”
I apply more manure as a top dressing late winter/ early spring.
Most of my plants do well. If they fail I don’t think it’s hunger that’s the problem more often they are in the wrong position.
You didn't say your buddleia was potted. This is why we ask questions, and yes - lots of people feed at inappropriate times because they don't know any better, or feed sickly, dying plants. Common query. Rotted manure is certainly a good addition for otherwise healthy specimens, and heftier than compost alone. Compost on it's own is no good long term If you keep a buddleia potted, it would need to be a very good size of container, or you could just end up with a pot full of roots.
The only thing that seems to make that Tomorite product 'organic' is the addition of seaweed. I'd like to know what the other ingredients are. Perhaps you can inform us all. The only organic food, apart from improving your soil [which is what most people do because that's the best method] is to make your own from comfrey or nettles, according to what is getting fed.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Interesting, I was thinking exactly the same, @Fairygirl. Strictly I don't think the tomorite is organic, it is just made from ingredients that occur naturally, so they call it organic. I have looked at the ingredients and it is impossible to tell.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
My understanding is that the regulation of the term ‘organic’ only applies to food products, seeds etc. which have to conform to strict standards of production.
The word ‘organic’ when applied to other stuff such as fertilizer appears to mean almost anything you want it to mean providing it is not manufactured chemically. 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
One of my farmer brother’s neighbour’s farm now has Organic Certification … it’s a long process taking at least two years of following the correct procedure and practices … it has to be renewed each year.
Buddleia tend to struggle in pots in my experience they dry out quickly and flop. Strange when they seem to flourish in the most inhospitable places in the wild
My liquid fertilisers seem to be relatively organic, they absolutely stink and look like the feed you can get from comfrey. It's strange they don't tell you what it's made from other than bits of plants (I think that's what Miraclegro organic say but not in those exact words). I think the best thing to do is to grow comfrey and make some out of that, is liquid fertiliser made from nettles more nitrogen rich?
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This is why we ask questions, and yes - lots of people feed at inappropriate times because they don't know any better, or feed sickly, dying plants. Common query.
Rotted manure is certainly a good addition for otherwise healthy specimens, and heftier than compost alone. Compost on it's own is no good long term
If you keep a buddleia potted, it would need to be a very good size of container, or you could just end up with a pot full of roots.
The only thing that seems to make that Tomorite product 'organic' is the addition of seaweed. I'd like to know what the other ingredients are. Perhaps you can inform us all.
The only organic food, apart from improving your soil [which is what most people do because that's the best method] is to make your own from comfrey or nettles, according to what is getting fed.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
The word ‘organic’ when applied to other stuff such as fertilizer appears to mean almost anything you want it to mean providing it is not manufactured chemically. 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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.