Feeding the plants

Can anyone recommend, a good general purpose food / fertilizer i can give to the plants, trees & shrubs in my garden. I've heard chicken droppings are good, can any body help.

Many thanks
Michael.......

 

Pelleted chicken manure is woderful. It doesn't smell too bad and is easy to use but don't over do it or your plant will grow huge. Another good fertilizer is one made from sewage sludge much the same as chicken poo but doesn't seem to go mouldy as quickly lying on the suface of the soil.

 

I use tomato plant food on all my plants once a week and everything seems to be fine my toms have started to spring into action.But being up here int north I havent yet put out my hanging baskets, :eek: they look so good in the greenhouse maybe next week.

 

Add to the previous suggestions, slow release fertilisers, and of course, best of all the contents of your compost heap

 

Seaweed feed is ace, bonus of "toughening up" plants too. Farm yard manure or mushroom compost is good (will raise soil pH) or composted bark (more acidic). Chicken manure is a great all rounder & if you lightly fork it in, doesn't go mouldy on top. Things like miracle gro encourage lots of sappy growth which the little beasties just love, so then you get into battling with them - I avoid these. If you do want a proprietary feed go for something with an equal balance of Nitrogen:Phosphorus:Potassium. Nitrogen for leaves: Phosphorus for roots: Potassium for fruit & flowers.

 

oh Revin Helen, where do you get your none smelly chicken manure from. The stuff I get in large plastic tubs stinks to high heaven for about a week :0(
It doesn't go mouldy though and I get brilliant results with it

 

Chempak do all kinds of specialist feeds, High nitrogen, high potash etc. etc.
They can be bought mailorder or from some garden centres.
But I tend to use a tomato food on most flowering plants and a liquid growmore on others.
In the garden I use Rooster(guess what that is) a couple of times through the growing season.
In containers I use osmacote, but I try not to overdo it, then I can add some nitrogen late in the season, just to get that last little bit out of the plants before the end.