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Best organic fertiliser
I use fish blood and bone fertliser for just about everything I grow. I think it's prob the best. I have used other similar fertilisers....Humber fish for example, pelleted chicken manure too
What do the forum members use?
I think it sensible to ring the changes now and then so will probably use something different next season.
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I also use FB&B for most things, and organic pelleted chicken manure. I also use Westland organic Farmyard manure - particularly on the veg patch where it is rapidly improving the structure as well as the fertility of our very free draining sandy loam.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I use comfrey brew, chicken pellets and maxicrop seaweed.
I tend to use FBand B as well, but I have been thinking about how much feeding flower beds actually need? If I stopped feeding for a season would I notice any difference? Would growing the plants a bit "tougher" make them actually stronger in the long run? Perhaps i have too much time on my hands?!?
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Punkdoc
I forgot to fertilizer one of my flower beds this year.while the structure of the soil was good, I also use a fine grade sift on soil.
Result was flowers that didn't really grow and eventually 80% of them died as the dogs where weeing on them.
so I would say add as much fertilizer/organic farmyard manure as you can
this is on my job to do today
James
I use well rotted FYM to improve the soil structure and water holding ability.
I generally use Blood, fish and bonemeal as a general fertiliser when preparing veg beds.
I add bonemeal to the backfilling soil when planting trees.
I use comfrey tea as a boost for tomatoes. Nettle tea as a boost for brassicas.
Calcified seaweed (maerl) when preparing onion or brassica beds.(as well as FBB)
This year I gave the entire veg plot a good shovel full per square yard of Seer Rock Dust to add back some micronutrients leached out by two years of rain.
I dont have a lock on the shed. Most people couldn't stand the smell in there.
Organic chicken manure pellets on the veg bed and FB&B on flowers; if I have time, a wheelbarrow or 2 from the local farm of horse manure really gets things going.
IVE never EVER bought fertiliser in my whole life. I have 3 compost bins, and i compost everything that comes out of the garden, you name it andI compost it.
I collect leaves during the autumn and dig them in straight away into the garden, that gives the frost and cold weather to get to work on them, and I use the compost i make to add to the soil every year and apart from maybe a spell last year when things took a long time to get growing, ive never had any problems, I forget to say that i feed al my plants and veg with liquid from cumfry soaked in water till it smells awful and the same with nettles, thin it down to a 1 to 10 ratio approx and the stuff grows like wildfire.
Eddie.
Verdun; up until about 120 years ago, carts collected the 'night soil' from London houses and put it straight onto the fields that grew the veg which were sold in, guess where? London! Even now, in the Fens, there was a very large and mysterious pile of very fine gray dust by a field where I walk the muttette. A neighbour told me it is re-cycled London (that place again - I'm sure I've heard of it before...) sewerage. I'm pretty sure he is right as it was covered in tomato plants in the late summer, before the farmer and his tractor dug it into the ground, WITHOUT WEARING A FACE MASK!!!
Basically, though, plant growth is circular; manure feeds the seeds, which grows the plants, which get eaten, which creates manure...
I wrote this ages ago and keep it on file for reference.
"Blood meal is a slaughter house by-product and is an excellent source of quickly available organic nitrogen, when used as a top dressing and watered in.
Blood meal is completely soluble and can be mixed with water and used as a liquid fertilizer.
Fish meal is a great natural fertilizer, high in phosphorous and high in organic nitrogen. Fish meal is quick acting, offering a sustained supply of nutrients.
Bone meal is used as a long-lasting source of phosphorous as well as low levels of nitrogen, potassium and calcium. The extremely slow availability of nutrients from bone meal makes it a very safe fertilizer, especially when planting of potting very young or new plants."