hi laura turner2 I am like ralphpyboy ilook around and when some of the super markets garden section have offers on buy 1 get 1 free I allways have a spare on to use I have a bloke next allotment down has birds I get his muck and winter time I spread some on garden let rain snow wash it in ground //blood f//bone around plants on soil or compost// phostrogen good for most if not all plants when watered down
I too put Fish Blood and Bone down in Feb/March and mulch with farmyard manure. I give roses a feed in June using David Austins rose food. I use tomatoe feed or one of the miraclegrow type plant foods (whatever is on offer at the time) for baskets and pots and I also use ericaceous feed for Rhododendrons, camelias and other acid loving plants.
I buy Doff tomato food in Poundland. It works a treat on all my flowering bedding plants - the secret is to use it regularly not in fits & starts when you feel like it ! I add a tiny splash of washing up liquid to the water to help reduce 'run-off' when watering/feeding pots and baskets.
My soil is very light and nutriants get washed out during the winter so I sprinkle chicken pellets (3k - £2.99 at B+M) and growmore on most of my plots at the beginning of the season, along with home made compost. The only plots that get just compost are the beans and pea plots, along with lots of screwed up newspaper in the trenches. Every veg I grow gets a seaweed spray, twice, as it grows.
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hi laura turner2 I am like ralphpyboy ilook around and when some of the super markets garden section have offers on buy 1 get 1 free I allways have a spare on to use I have a bloke next allotment down has birds I get his muck and winter time I spread some on garden let rain snow wash it in ground //blood f//bone around plants on soil or compost// phostrogen good for most if not all plants when watered down
I too put Fish Blood and Bone down in Feb/March and mulch with farmyard manure. I give roses a feed in June using David Austins rose food. I use tomatoe feed or one of the miraclegrow type plant foods (whatever is on offer at the time) for baskets and pots and I also use ericaceous feed for Rhododendrons, camelias and other acid loving plants.
fish, blood and bone - best thing fo
r the garden
F,B&B for me too - it also survives better with the amount of rain here. Doesn't get washed through so much - especially in raised beds.
Tomato food for a boost for Clematis and annuals - although I grow very few of those.
Seaweed for things like Fatsia and Phormiums or the hedging. If I remember...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fish Blood & Bone it is then......off to Homebase this morning, bit nippy out there, I wonder if they sell USB heated wellies?? Thinking out load
I buy Doff tomato food in Poundland. It works a treat on all my flowering bedding plants - the secret is to use it regularly not in fits & starts when you feel like it ! I add a tiny splash of washing up liquid to the water to help reduce 'run-off' when watering/feeding pots and baskets.
hi erics mum I have 6 in my cuboard waiting I went in the new wilkos at durham altr bottle cost £1 40 3ltr less than the price of 2
My soil is very light and nutriants get washed out during the winter so I sprinkle chicken pellets (3k - £2.99 at B+M) and growmore on most of my plots at the beginning of the season, along with home made compost. The only plots that get just compost are the beans and pea plots, along with lots of screwed up newspaper in the trenches. Every veg I grow gets a seaweed spray, twice, as it grows.
hah-hah Michael mpc ! A plant food hoarder, that's why my local Wilko's can't get any stock !!!