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General purpose feeding

LabradoubleLabradouble Posts: 61
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Please could I get some advice on the best from of fertiliser/plant food to use generally around the garden,I have mainly shrubs including hydrangea.

Many thanks

Labradouble

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  • Jimmy CrawfordJimmy Crawford Posts: 468

    Blood fish and bone. Good mix of fast and slow release fertilisers. There's a thread here http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/plants/blood-fish-and-bone/245519.html

  • Reluctant_GardenerReluctant_Gardener Posts: 284

    Manure or Blood Fish and Bone. 

    Blood Fish and Bone has quite a high embedded energy due to the crushing, grinding and kilning. . I'm not sure where the waste would go otherwise

  • Jimmy CrawfordJimmy Crawford Posts: 468
    It's not the best thing, ecologically, but you have to imagine it would be landfilled otherwise.
  • LabradoubleLabradouble Posts: 61

    Many thanks 

  • Jimmy CrawfordJimmy Crawford Posts: 468
    Indeed. Far better than the chemical plant alternatives.
  • UnknownUnknown

    For me it would be Vitax Q4 = NPK: 5.3-7.5-10 + trace elements.

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    I have well over 40 hydrangeas here plus dozens of other shrubs, never fed any, they are all well over 10ft tall. Do you really need to keep chucking feed at everything, they dont do it at the stately home gardens. They have huge shrubs. Maybe I should?

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053

    I use pelleted chicken manure as a spring feed for everything in my garden.

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