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feeding
it's the time of year to start thinking about feeding, the problem is i am sooo confused! what to feed and when?i bought some fish blood and bone, but after reading not to use it as foxes will dig in the garden, i'm now paranoid to use it 9 a fox woke me up at 4am this morning, what a racket!) i used rose food last year, nothing on everything else, aany advice welcome!thanks in advance
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Sorry, I am no help at all,. but I will be following this thread with great interest .
B,F&B for me and I've never had an issue with foxes in any garden - and there's always been plenty of them.
I use tomato food for clematis and any other heavy flowerers, as an extra to the BF&B. That's good if you grow annuals too, as they often run out of steam later in the season.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have foxes so I use Growmore in Spring and again in early Summer.
Dahlias, Cannas and other heavy feeders , get regular Tomato feed during the Summer
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
i'm not feeding yet, I wait until things start growing before I feed otherwise it just washes away in the rain.
I have mulched after it rained for the entire weekend tho.
At this time of year feed bushes, roses, Azalea etc with Continuous Release feed, pull back the soil to see the roots and sprinkle some round and put the soil back round, also pots with bushes, shrubs in take the top soil away sprinkle some in and replace soil with new soil this is called top dressing. Other than that I don't do much to were under way in April, May with tomato feed, feeding the bulbs that have finished flowering building up the bulb for next year. Also feeding the perennial plants with tomato feed when there flowering in the summer and also I use Miracle-Gro Azalea, Camellia and Rhododendron Soluble feed to build them up for next year when the new buds start to form.
Well rotted manure in the beds & around shrubs (even a small amount in large pots does wonders for me), replace top compost/mulch, FB&B, tomato feed in flowering season and for the grass an autumn feed (you can also do it in Spring). We have a resident fox that deems our garden as his premise and have never had an issue with him digging after F,B&B either.
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I feed every thing with a liquid seaweed and hydronised fish emulsion mix works well for me organic also use as a folier feed
lots of good info, thanks, never had any digging, just aware foxes around& no one else on the road does much gardening so don't want my garden to be a magnet! was thinking about getting manure, I used to have horses ...should have stocked up!
Normally start my feeding programme in the garden with a general feed of Grow-more in spring , then another feed in mid summer
Agapanthus in boarders once they show signs of growth get a fortnight feed of tomato feed. All my clematis get a mulch and BFBM forked in to the soil. They get a photogene water feed up to end of May, then a tomato feed up to flowering
Tulips get a good bonemeal feed after they have stopped flowering. Lilies get tomato feed each 2 weeks
i would check on the Internet gardening sites to check feeding requirements of certain plants as some are greedier than others and some plants do not require great feeding regimes