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Getting feeding right
Breathe
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I bought bone meal and blood thinking to enrich my soil thereby feeding plants and improving texture of my clay soil: and cheer up my containers, then read it needs to be administered BEFORE planting out or nitrogen can leach away and cause pollution in water table.
I DO think I've tampered a bit with my plants just with the tomato feed I have used and the plant food; produced too much height and weakish leaves. And I have a trough whose compost I completely replenished but I just get the feeling it isn't super nutritious, one of the plants in there isn't flowering a great deal.
I'm in full flower so should I stay my hand on the bone meal for now?
What do people swear by?
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I use Fish, Blood and Bone in the spring (sprinkle it on and tickle it in with a hoe) and again in early summer. On the veg patch, I also use chicken manure pellets where I'm going to grow leafy veg.
I also use FB&B in the planting soil when planting new shrubs etc.
I use specialist clematis feed (as directed on the pack) for clems, roses and other flowering shrubs.
I use Tomato feed for tomatoes, courgettes, runner beans, chillis etc and bedding plants in tubs etc - that is for anything that you want to flower and/or produce seeds. As a general rule of thumb start feeding when the first flowers appear.
Hope that helps
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you.
I'll be raring to go in spring!