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Advice please
Star Shaped Peg
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I was hoping for some sound advice please.
Which is the best fertiliser to use on the garden? We make our own compost and the chickens free range so I suspect the garden is good for nitrogen.
We have mainly shrubs, some fruit trees and a small vegtable patch.
Thanks all
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The whle garden a twice yearly application of Fish, Blood and Bone (early spring, and another around June/July). I also mix some in with the compost/soil when planting new shrubs/perennials etc.
Most veg, fruit and tubs of flowers get an occasional feed with a liquid seaweed fertiliser, tomatoes, courgettes and roses get tomato fertiliser and the clematis get specialist clematis food.
I also throw occasional handfuls of chicken manure pellets around from time to time, but your garden probably doesn't need that
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks Dove. I'll do the same.
I only use a sprinkling of chicken pellets on the borders, only once a year as soil improver, but lots of compost as a mulch, as Verdun says, too much feed.... ground rejuvenates itself if left alone.