[Sheena]

I have arthur bower lime hating plant food and really need to feed my blueberries as the early variety has shrivelled up at the ends and I've lost the berries on it, I don't want to lose the berries on the other one.

The box suggests 70gms/m2 for the plant food and 35gms/m2 for Iron sulphate, there is no measuring scoop so my question is simply, how do I know how much that is?!

[DD.]

Daft question - do you have some kitchen scales you can use?

[Jim T]

I have arthur bower lime hating plant food and really need to feed my blueberries as the early variety has shrivelled up at the ends and I've lost the berries on it, I don't want to lose the berries on the other one.

The box suggests 70gms/m2 for the plant food and 35gms/m2 for Iron sulphate, there is no measuring scoop so my question is simply, how do I know how much that is?!

Hi Sheena,
What I do is look on the pack for the net weight. If for example it was 500grams, you know that 100gms would be about a fifth of the total ... so 70 grams is about a third less than that  
To me thats easier than getting some kitchen scales.

[WG.]

What I do is look on the pack for the net weight. If for example it was 500grams, you know that 100gms would be about a fifth of the total ... so 70 grams is about a third less than that  
To me thats easier than getting some kitchen scales.

I find that mildly amusing for a former biochemist ... let's see now, I need 10 milligrams of phenolphthalein ... packet is 50gm ... but someone has taken some already ... okay, just a wee dash ... damn, my hand slipped.    

Only joking, JT  

[Jim T]

What I do is look on the pack for the net weight. If for example it was 500grams, you know that 100gms would be about a fifth of the total ... so 70 grams is about a third less than that  
To me thats easier than getting some kitchen scales.

I find that mildly amusing for a former biochemist ... let's see now, I need 10 milligrams of phenolphthalein ... packet is 50gm ... but someone has taken some already ... okay, just a wee dash ... damn, my hand slipped.    

Only joking, JT  

 :cry:  :roll: Yes David, long gone are my days of pH titrations.
But I have bought myself a nice pH meter.
Nice to hear from you after my absense due to computer aggravation :evil:  :twisted: Jim

[WG.]

What worries me is that I didn't need to look up the spelling of phenolphthalein  :shock:

[Jim T]

What worries me is that I didn't need to look up the spelling of phenolphthalein  :shock:

 :twisted: We used to put a few drops of that into our "friends" drink, to give them ......... now how do you spell this ... diarrhoae LOL  

[WG.]

scoots is easier to spell      

[shaun]

We used to put a few drops of that into our "friends" drink, to give them ......... now how do you spell this ... diarrhoae LOL  

and what did they put in your drink jim