Morning Folks
Any hints, tips on what you feed your plants and frequency.
My understanding is the tomato feeds are used once a week and can also be applied to cucumbers, chilli’s/peppers, strawberries?
What about other veg, beans, onions, courgettes, etc….A general purpose feed???
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I tend to start out with good intentions by BFB raked in before planting but then forget about everything but the tomatoes. If I use a soluble feed it means a watering can, but if I have to water I use the hose and the feeding gets forgotten because I get narked about how much the water is costing. That said if anything it is BFB or poultry pellets sprinkled haphazardly around. If I think about feeding courgettes, I stop myself because there's normally too many and they don't need encouragement.
Not much help I'm afraid.
I make comfrey feed and give it to chillies, peppers, tomatoes, aubergines, cucs about once a week. Brassicas get some if I have enough. Beans have a load of compost in the planting holes and that does them. Courgettes get some when they first start flowering,
I don't think I feed anything else but rely on the compost that goes on the beds over-winter and when planting. Plus all my veg beds are mulched with gass clippings which I hope breaks down into something useful!!
My pretty things in pots get a weekly dose of it too.
(27-05-2020, 09:10 AM)JJB Wrote: [ -> ]I tend to start out with good intentions by BFB raked in before planting but then forget about everything but the tomatoes. If I use a soluble feed it means a watering can, but if I have to water I use the hose and the feeding gets forgotten because I get narked about how much the water is costing. That said if anything it is BFB or poultry pellets sprinkled haphazardly around. If I think about feeding courgettes, I stop myself because there's normally too many and they don't need encouragement.
Not much help I'm afraid.
Hiya JJB
It is helpful as to me it’s saying you are satisfied with your crop without religious feeding?
(27-05-2020, 09:34 AM)PyreneesPlot Wrote: [ -> ]I make comfrey feed and give it to chillies, peppers, tomatoes, aubergines, cucs about once a week. Brassicas get some if I have enough. Beans have a load of compost in the planting holes and that does them. Courgettes get some when they first start flowering,
I don't think I feed anything else but rely on the compost that goes on the beds over-winter and when planting. Plus all my veg beds are mulched with gass clippings which I hope breaks down into something useful!!
My pretty things in pots get a weekly dose of it too.
Thanks PP
I think I need to get some comfrey plugs for the plot next year
I use dalek compost, BFB, then feed with comfrey, nettles and sometimes store bought Tom feed. I’m a bit slapdash with feeding anything apart from my toms.
(27-05-2020, 09:37 AM)Broadway Wrote: [ -> ] (27-05-2020, 09:10 AM)JJB Wrote: [ -> ]I tend to start out with good intentions by BFB raked in before planting but then forget about everything but the tomatoes. If I use a soluble feed it means a watering can, but if I have to water I use the hose and the feeding gets forgotten because I get narked about how much the water is costing. That said if anything it is BFB or poultry pellets sprinkled haphazardly around. If I think about feeding courgettes, I stop myself because there's normally too many and they don't need encouragement.
Not much help I'm afraid.
Hiya JJB
It is helpful as to me it’s saying you are satisfied with your crop without religious feeding?
(27-05-2020, 09:34 AM)PyreneesPlot Wrote: [ -> ]I make comfrey feed and give it to chillies, peppers, tomatoes, aubergines, cucs about once a week. Brassicas get some if I have enough. Beans have a load of compost in the planting holes and that does them. Courgettes get some when they first start flowering,
I don't think I feed anything else but rely on the compost that goes on the beds over-winter and when planting. Plus all my veg beds are mulched with gass clippings which I hope breaks down into something useful!!
My pretty things in pots get a weekly dose of it too.
Thanks PP
I think I need to get some comfrey plugs for the plot next year
Just be certain to get sterile plants. I just grew it from seed because I have a big plot and can control it.
And then I planted it in the middle of the potager.
In the same bed as the asparagus.
I cannot control it!
I don't feed things on the plot with anything other than comfrey/weed tea. I mulched all the beds with horse manure last year, and I intend to use that in the future again, alternating one year with compost, and one year with horse manure. No more feeds than that.
Potted plants get a normal, bottled liquid feed every few weeks while they're still in pots.