Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: noshed on May 04, 2007, 14:20
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Is liquid seaweed OK for fertilising tomatoes, until my comfrey gets bigger? How often do you fertilise other stuff, like spuds? I've been using BF&B and pelleted chicken manure at random intervals. But my peas do look a bit yellow.
I dug in manure and compost this autumn but I'm thinking things need a bit more of a boost. My rasberries are certainly looking better for dosing with chicken manure and compost mulch over the winter.
I'm wondering about putting some seaweed extract in all my watering-can water from now on.
The soil is clay/loam.
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I may be wrong here but I regard liquid seaweed as a provider of trace elements rather than a fertiliser per se. Since you aren't organic then Tomorite would be my suggestion for youtr tomatoes until your comfrey is ready.
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Think your right WG, I used it a couple of years ago got good results when used with a tomato feed. Plants seemed stronger and greener.
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fish blood and bone in 1kg boxes are buy one get one free in morrisons £2.95 i think :wink:
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One of the ingredients of Tomorite is sea weed :D
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fish blood and bone in 1kg boxes are buy one get one free in morrisons £2.95 i think :wink:
Do people still use dried blood in their ground bait ? sorry OT but just sprang to mind as I used to use it years ago for tench fishing.
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ive read it but not used myself mate
so was it any good then ?
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Yeah well wicked, mix it up in the ground bait stinks tho' but you can see little lines of bubbles coming right into your swim, upto your float and .... gonna after get some kit !