Thank you for the seaweed tips! And yours on chicken manure Mike. Based on Verdun's answers re: seaweed I might scatter some around the already budding crowns of my delphiniums before the slugs move in for the season! Clueless - LOVE the idea of making a hotbed. I have a coldframe so I may do just as you say.
Wonderful, you've all inspired me! When this rain/hurricane stops this afternoon here on the battered Hampshire coast I will get out there and get busy. Thanks so much
The popular fertiliser nowadays is Chicken manure pellets - not fresh chicken manure which is a very different thing and should be kept away from plants when fresh - sorry to disagree with Mike there (unless I'm misunderstanding him).
Compost your chicken manure before using or make a hotbed! After you've finished using the hotbed for raising seedlings plant your courgette and squash plants on it
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I got a healthy supply of chicken manure last winter and used it to cover the beds. Worked a treat and everything grew wonderfully the following spring/summer with no burning. Never used on flowering plants though
I have five chooks and generally put their waste in the compost, but I have put some in an old sock and am steeping it in water. Do it for a week, stirring once a day (or shaking!) and you have a liquid fertiliser. Dilute 1/10, job done
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Thank you for the seaweed tips! And yours on chicken manure Mike. Based on Verdun's answers re: seaweed I might scatter some around the already budding crowns of my delphiniums before the slugs move in for the season! Clueless - LOVE the idea of making a hotbed. I have a coldframe so I may do just as you say.
Wonderful, you've all inspired me! When this rain/hurricane stops this afternoon here on the battered Hampshire coast I will get out there and get busy. Thanks so much
The popular fertiliser nowadays is Chicken manure pellets - not fresh chicken manure which is a very different thing and should be kept away from plants when fresh - sorry to disagree with Mike there (unless I'm misunderstanding him).
Compost your chicken manure before using or make a hotbed! After you've finished using the hotbed for raising seedlings plant your courgette and squash plants on it
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Will be adding pellets to soil around shrubs again this year ( 3rd year running) - I find a real difference. I always water well in straight after.
I got a healthy supply of chicken manure last winter and used it to cover the beds. Worked a treat and everything grew wonderfully the following spring/summer with no burning. Never used on flowering plants though
I have five chooks and generally put their waste in the compost, but I have put some in an old sock and am steeping it in water. Do it for a week, stirring once a day (or shaking!) and you have a liquid fertiliser. Dilute 1/10, job done