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Food for blooms
Loganberry Hut
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Everything I read warns of feeding flowering annuals because it creates foliage rather than blooms. I want my garden to be bloomtastic so is there Something I should be feeding that will help flowers but not give me Masses of foliage instead? Thank you!
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Tomato Food or Phostrogen generally work very well
For flowers (and fruit), you want a fertiliser with more Potassium (the K in NPK.) Choose a general fertiliser with a quoted NPK (actually N:P:K) ratio of, say, 5:5:15 or similar. Tomato feed is an easily available example. If you are growing in the ground and have prepared the soil well by using manure or home made compost before planting, additional fertiliser is usually not needed, but growing in pots benefits after about 6 weeks as the fertiliser incorporated into multi-purpose compost is usually exhausted by then. See the RHS advice to learn more about fertilisers, here:
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?PID=304