Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: mrs bouquet on March 01, 2021, 16:46
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If you could only buy one, which would it be. ? Mrs Bouquet
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Chicken manure pellets or blood,fish & bone are all I buy. I make comfrey tea but rarely give that to anything other than tomatoes & cucumbers
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Tomato food is good for anything that you want to flower well without putting on too much leafy growth; I use it on my bedding plants and tubs.
G&R
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I like Maxicrop liquid feed as it contains sea weed extract which is beneficial to the plants especially when potting on as a little bit helps to settle them in afterwards.
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Indeed, and you can get Maxicrop original, and Maxicrop tomato - which has the added potash for flowering
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Also look at places like B+M, Home Bargains ot The Range for some very good offers, Doff also produce a good priced liquid feed.
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Pretty much all plants use roughly the same balance of macronutrients. The N-P-K three digit number identifies that balance in a fertilizer. Any plant uses the N and K in roughly the same proportions, but much less of P (middle number); plants often do quite well with only 10 to 20 percent P compared to the N and K. The good news is that as long as you provide the nutrients they need, it doesn't matter if you provide a little too much P relative to the other nutrients.
So, a balanced fertilizer with all of the 3 numbers about equal is a safe choice for just about everything.
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In the past I've used Doff blood fish and bone as a general fertiliser and worked well for flower growth.
Last few years I've used Asda own brand.
Just had a few boxes arrive on my last Asda grocery delivery.