liquid based feed, what is best?

hi all

what, in your opinion, is the best liquid feed for plants in general?

in the past, and currently, i'm using miracle grow, but i am considering using a general tomato plant feed. anything else to consider??

many fank yoos in advance,

Al.

 

advanced nutrients iguana juice grow .... use it as a foliar feed

 

Depends on the plant because they have different requirements.

For ericaceous plants I use either Miracle Gro for Camellias and Rhododendrons or Vitax Seaweed plus Sequestered Iron.

For Roses, Clematis and Fuchsias, I use tomato feed when they are in bud or about to flower.

For anything else I use Miracle Gro All Purpose or else Vitax Organic Liquid Seaweed.

 

Probably wrongly, i just use liquid Seaweed but you have to be careful with the dosage. If i use the recommended dosage i usually end up with leggy growth so i just use a capful per gallon for most things which seems to suffice. Horses for courses i guess.

 

iguana juice contains 76 minerals, seaweed, different bat guanos, worm humus, fish meal, yucca, alfalfa, brewers yeast, fulvic acid, krill meal, and fulvic acid

and it's organic ... £20 gets you a litre, which dilutes at 4ml per litre of water, so you get 250 litres of fertilizer for £20

I use it as a foliar feed, and it works well on everything that I have used it on

 

Miracle grow when it's 75% off at Wilkos

Home made comfrey stinkwater liquid tomato feed N.B. Not suitable for indoor use - get some tomato feed from Wilkos sale for that (apart from the smell, the rat-tailed maggots in it can also be rather off putting if watering pots on the kitchen window sill)



and Maxicrop seaweed fertilizer (buy in 10 litre packs to get it cheaper)

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/attachments/seaweed-jpg.4134

 

well, i went to homebase after dinner, and picked up some phostrogen and couldn't resist another canna and a lovely coleus, i'm addicted i tell ya!

could of spent a fortune tonight in homebase again, and the quality of the plants seem to be very good. ooh, if i was a rich man, tra-la-la-la-laaaaa etc..........

 

Found a liquid feed to rival the smell of my homemade liquid comfrey feed - fish emulsion feed. Cor, what a stinker!

 

I have a bottle of that (biobizz fish mix) .... works well, but don't use it for your indoor plants as it stinks for a long time after applying...

I use it both as a foliar feed and a soil drench

 

I only use it on outdoor/polytunnel plants for competition that I want to really boost the growth of (too expensive for general stuff), and in conjunction with seaweed extract, etc. Mrs Scrungee has smelt it and wont even let me bring the bottle indoors, let alone use it on houseplants. (she even worries about it attracting cats/rats/seagulls to outdoor veg)

I wonder if there's a way of making your own stuff by boiling up loads of mackerel heads after gutting them after a good feathering session?

 

I make homemade seaweed tea with bladderwrack collect a bin bag from my local beach give it a good wash then I spread over my lawn and go over it the my mower into a water butt month later it's done- but man it stinks