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General feeding practices (veg) - Broadway - 27-03-2021
Morning Folks
Following on from the recent "Feeding garlic and onions" thread I wondered if people follow a regular feeding regime for all of their veg?
I still consider myself new to all this growing veg malarkey and to date my feeding has been haphazard.
My assumption is a monthly feed with whatever you can lay your hands on?
Do the likes of growmore/chicken pellets really need working in or can you just scatter and water?
RE: General feeding practices (veg) - JJB - 27-03-2021
I'm in the haphazard camp. BFB gets scattered early spring in the hope it will work it's way in, but sometimes gets raked in. Pellets at planting time in the hole. I find they need a bit of water to dissolve them if they are on the surface but more often than not let the rain do that. GH gets fed rather more regularly but I've been known to forget. Not being disciplined enough to experiment with a control, I've no idea whether what I do could be better or not.
RE: General feeding practices (veg) - Small chilli - 27-03-2021
I feed weekly. Different things get different feed.
Same as you don’t feed a lion & squirrel the same thing. There dietary needs are different
.If you want your growmore & chicken pellets to work properly, work them in.
RE: General feeding practices (veg) - toomanytommytoes - 27-03-2021
I just follow the recommendations on the packaging, which for BFB is 140g/m2 before planting then 70g/m2 for subsequent top dressings. The packaging normally says use every 4 - 6 weeks but usually I only apply it once in the spring then maybe again in summer for greedy plants like brassicas/squash/sweetcorn. Compost and mulch also adds a lot of nutrients, Charles Dowding doesn't seem to use any fertiliser for example.
In pots I use ~5g BFB per litre of compost. For hungry plants like tomatoes I feed weekly with soluble fertiliser after first fruit set.
RE: General feeding practices (veg) - Veggie - 27-03-2021
I'm in the feed the soil, not the plant camp.
If I remember I put some chicken manure pellets in the planting hole for beans & courgettes and I water the tomatoes/cucumbers in pots with some sort of liquid feed - las year it was fish pond water and seaweed feed. I can't leave chicken manure pellets on the ground because the dogs eat them!
I throw wood ash around the fruit bushes and trees and onions.
Otherwise,nothing..
RE: General feeding practices (veg) - Eyren - 27-03-2021
I'm with Veggie in the "feed the soil" camp. I mostly only use specific feeds on container-grown plants, because the limited amount of compost means that nutrients get used up more quickly. For those, I generally use organic seaweed-based feeds, including a higher potash one for tomatoes, etc.
My new raised beds all have a thick layer of fresh compost at the moment, but I'll be mulching them with home-made compost and worm compost next year. I generally have small patches of different veggies growing alongside one another, so the idea of feeding individual plants would be pretty pointless anyway.
RE: General feeding practices (veg) - Broadway - 27-03-2021
Thanks for all your replies folks
RE: General feeding practices (veg) - Spec - 28-03-2021
I add seaweed to the garden which helps feed the soil, but I also give everything that I have to water a weak feed at every watering