Feeding spring sown onion sets

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Yana

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Feeding spring sown onion sets
« on: June 10, 2013, 07:57 »
Should I be feeding my spring sown onion sets now and if so, what with? I have bonemeal but read somewhere that BFB is preferred. If BFB is the way to go, can I substitute the bonemeal?  I put bonemeal in planting holes so maybe it isn't what I should be using to fatten the bulbs up.
I have my own cement mixer and not afraid to use it!!

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Re: Feeding spring sown onion sets
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2013, 09:17 »
mine are just coming up as well so am also interested in answers :)

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Re: Feeding spring sown onion sets
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2013, 09:30 »
Have you got a few chicken pellets to add with your bonemeal, to make it more of an  'all-purpose' feed, like BF&B?

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Re: Feeding spring sown onion sets
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2013, 09:38 »
o thats a good diea i will sue the chicken pellets for them...im growing them in a container so fingers crossed

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Re: Feeding spring sown onion sets
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2013, 09:38 »
I gave mine the last bit of growmore I had kicking about. I wouldn't put BFB down at the plot as the foxes would dig the whole lot up for me ::) I only use BFB before I plant, then a few holes don't matter so much, and it gets dug in :D

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Re: Feeding spring sown onion sets
« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2013, 09:45 »
we are lucky no fixes so we sue BFb

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Re: Feeding spring sown onion sets
« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2013, 12:38 »
Have you got a few chicken pellets to add with your bonemeal, to make it more of an  'all-purpose' feed, like BF&B?
Hi MoS
Yep I do have some chicken pellets so I'll do just what you suggest and hoe it in.


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