Bone meal is a slow release fertiliser which needs to break down in the soil before the plants can use it, the finer it is ground up the quicker it is ready for the plants. If you buy it with fish and blood in it they will act first before the bone meal is ready so it is a long acting organic fertiliser.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I often use organic chicken manure pellets, if I was creating a new bed I would dig them into the top few inches about a week or so before planting. I have never bothered to read the instructions though; they may say something different. Always follow the guide lines on quantity per sq. metre.
I did once have problems with either a fox or a dog digging up earth where I had just sprinkled the pellets on and had not bothered to dig them in.
Pelleted chicken manure is easy to use......you can just chuck it over the soil in the amounts recommended on the packaging. As you are just using it for tubs you will not need to buy much; it can be a bit pongy if you have to store it indoors so you don't want half a box of the stuff under the stairs. I use a little on my tubs at the beginning of the year then use a liquid feed at other times. Plants in tubs need feeding regularly because they cannot send their roots out into the wider world in search of nutrients.
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Bone meal is a slow release fertiliser which needs to break down in the soil before the plants can use it, the finer it is ground up the quicker it is ready for the plants. If you buy it with fish and blood in it they will act first before the bone meal is ready so it is a long acting organic fertiliser.
Oh thanks for explaining
So if i buy chicken pellets this is better? i just have no idea
I need to get the soil sorted before i do anything, so any suggestions would be good.
I often use organic chicken manure pellets, if I was creating a new bed I would dig them into the top few inches about a week or so before planting. I have never bothered to read the instructions though; they may say something different. Always follow the guide lines on quantity per sq. metre.
I did once have problems with either a fox or a dog digging up earth where I had just sprinkled the pellets on and had not bothered to dig them in.
OK thanks Artjak
Welcome Wendy - next time I am in Town, meeting friends at Hays Galleria, I must pop by and see what you have achieved! Good luck in your efforts.
You must indeed Pentillie are you in london
This soil is for the big planters i have took over, have now just purchased some J. Arthur Bower's Growmore Plant Food / Compound General Garden Fertiliser | 3KG to add to new compost
Hopefully this will work and then i will start to plant a few evergreens.
Thanks all
Soil now sorted with compost and above Grow more pellets
Ordered 2 pyrcanthas and i honesuckle i just could not resist the honey suckle but i was assured ok to plant now, weather ok here.
They'll be gorgeous Wendy - and good for wildlife
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.