[chickpeacurry]

Advised to feed my potatoes with super phosphates.  Is this okay for beetroot carrots swedes. All looking like they need a feed. What and how often should a feed. 

[Totty]

Phosphates and pottasium are both needed by spuds, more so than nitrogen. A good balanced general feed like blood fish and bone when planting should suffice until they start forming spuds. At this stage I feed with comfrey tea. Personally don't use inorganic fertillisers as they do nothing to benefit the soil at all, and that's what the plants have to grow in!

Totty

[solway cropper]

Phosphates help the plant with root formation but if you have a fertile soil/compost there should be enough already there without adding chemicals. Like Totty I use BFB then I feed later with a seaweed liquid feed.

I've actually never needed to give carrots, beetroot and swedes any supplementary feed as they seem to manage fine with what's in the soil.