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How often am I supposed to add nutrients to planters?

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  • davebettzdavebettz Posts: 110
    Obelixx said:
    Every spring - see previous post.  A good handful per pot.  More if it's a heavy feder such as roses.
    Thank you I get easily confused. 

    So the FB&B every spring or if I used the liquid feed weekly? 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited 19 March
    AND.  FBB and other dry fertilisers are slow release.  Liquid is instant tonic used during maximum growth periods so March to mid July and no later.  Not essential but helps with plants in pots which risk being under-nourished.

    Try printing off the info so you have an aide-mémoire.  This fourm will close tomorrow an disappear completely a week later.

    Move yourself to Gardeners Corner?
    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)."
    Plato
  • davebettzdavebettz Posts: 110
    Obelixx said:
    AND.  FBB and other dry fertilisers are slow release.  Liquid is instant tonic used during maximum growth periods so March to mid July and no later.  Not essential but helps with plants in pots which risk being under-nourished.

    Try printing off the info so you have an aide-mémoire.  This fourm will close tomorrow an disappear completely a week later.

    Move yourself to Gardeners Corner?
    I've already registered there, hopefully I'll remember 😂.

    I'll try the liquid feed as that's what I have the most of so could do with using it. I haven't been watering yet as I thought it's been too wet recently 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That's why you need to add a slow release dry feed whose nutrients are released slowly at the moment the plant needs them most!

    The liquid feed is like taking a vitamin supplement with your main meal.  It doesn't replace the meal.

    If you want your plant sto perform at their best you need to nourish them well.
    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)."
    Plato
  • davebettzdavebettz Posts: 110
    Obelixx said:
    That's why you need to add a slow release dry feed whose nutrients are released slowly at the moment the plant needs them most!

    The liquid feed is like taking a vitamin supplement with your main meal.  It doesn't replace the meal.

    If you want your plant sto perform at their best you need to nourish them well.
    Ok I'll add some FB&B Appreciate all the advice ❤️.

    I was just worried that if I add the FB&B, does that mean I can't use the liquid feed, I don't want to overfeed. 


  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Read my first replay again:

    Every spring - slow release fertiliser

    March to mid July, liquid feed if desired and as a tonic.

    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)."
    Plato
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