plant feed questions

hello again, ive been feeding my beetroots,potatoes,carrots, brussels,lettuce andtomato plant this stuff in the picture its not just for flowers is it eeek?

 

Don't think it will harm your veg, because people use tomoato feed for roses/other plants!

 

This page on the USA website suggests only for pots and containers.

Miracle-Gro Pour & Feed Liquid Plant Food - Scotts Miracle-Gro

 

It's a different Miracle-Gro that's just intended for flowers

 

I use any fertilizer that is available or cheap, but must say, that I tend to like the miracle gro range and always include the granular slow release miracle gro fertilizer when planting trees and shrubs (together with superhosphate and a handful of bonemeal/fish/blood)

I have been planting some hardy palms and 'extotic plants in a few gardens recently and use stuff called palmbooster every 2 weeks ...

have read many good reports about it, but it should only be used during the growing season .... It supposidly encourages root growth, so I assume it would be good for most plants/shrubs/trees and even vegetables, but am merely guessing

I always use superphospate on the shrubs/garden plants in early spring aswell

I have recently bought a tub of chicken manure pellets .... soaked a cupfull in warm water in a few large waterering cans for a few hrs, (chicken pellets was placed in old socks)

applied the solution via watering cans to a lawn that looked 'shabby', and can say that within 3 days, it greened up nicely, but suppose that one should not use it too often on the grass, and one should water well for the next few days after applying

poundland sells bone/blood (at a pound a box) aswell as a general granular fertilizer .... works fine and is cheap (I think garden centres sell the same stuff at nearly £6 per box)

In south africa, we used to buy a liquid concentrated fertilizer called Kalpak which is extracted from seaweed (I think), and a fertilizer called Nitrosol ... mix the 2 bottles together, dilute a capfull with 1 litre of water and spray on the leaves every 2 weeks during spring/summer .... worked wonders

I have also recently read that the best organic fertilizer combinations you can ever use is hydrolized fish mixed with liquid seaweed

I will be trying my hand at Bonsai soon, and will try the fish/seaweed mixture ... I have bookmarked some info on my computer about stuff called ProtoGrow ... this is fish/kelp and supposed to work wonders ... have not checked availability yet ... lots of info on google about this

 

the miracle gro looks pretty good ... the composition is 15-30-15

I might experiment with a few rose bushes next year and see what happens .... (I have a client who has a bed of 16 David Austin roses, ...
he has planted 8 different species of the roses, and he has planted 2 of each type in the same bed) ....

I will try the miracle gro bloom booster on one of each species and see what happens, and compare

bat Guano (manure) is 2-15-1 .... I will also experiment on other perenials with Guano and check the results

HIGH Phosphate Bat Guano NPK 2-15-1 XL 3kg BULK PACK | eBay

will be buying some bat guano later this week for my houseplants

 

Ashlee, you don`t feed rootcrops, if you are going to feed leafy crops, ie brassicas and lettuce, they need a high nitrogen feed. Tomatoes, assuming they are fruiting, need a high potash feed. If you want to grow veg, find out what you need to feed them and WHEN you need to feed them. Leave the flower food for the flowers, veg feeding is much more specialised.

 

from what I remember miracle Grow is mostly Nitrogen, so it is best for leaves.

Look at the NPK levels on the back of the packet. This is Nitrogen Potassium and Phosphorus (digs back to college memory..) Nitrogen is for leaves, phosphorus is for roots and potassium is for flowers and fruits (did I get the last 2 the right way round?) So, work out what part of the plant you want to feed and look for an NPK rating that has the highest number in the chemical you need.

Miracle Grow is (or at least was) marketed on how fast plants grow... which in general terms is ALL about leaves, hence the high N level.

Doh, just read some other posts.... that'll teach me to show off.. but it was good revision