Author Topic: Growmore fertiliser????? (Read 33203 times)

Tee Gee · « **Reply #40 on:** May 28, 2007, 12:16:29 »

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Tee Gee, so on you veg how much and how often

Now adays I don't measure it out as such I just use my eye!

However I can recall the first time I used it I set out 4 canes to form a square yard then I measured out 4 ounces of growmore then I spread it within the area formed by the canes.

In this way I saw the density of the grains laid and kept that picture in my minds eye ever since.

Another tip I used till I got used to the density was to put 4oz in a container and mark the container then because my beds were a yard and a half wide I spread this amount over a 2 ft strip. and voila 4oz/sq yd.

Regarding how often I put it on it was simply a case of once a season (ie before planting out) on my flower beds.

With veg I prefer to use Fish blood & bone because the blood is a fast nitrogen release for the young plants. Occasionally (if I remember) I sometimes spread some(growmore) around when I am planting successional crops.

Personally I like to grow my plants other than fruit mean & lean, I think things grow and taste better for this.

Too much watering and feeding tends to make everything seem watery and tasteless.

Thats an opinion maybe its me thats mean & lean ;)

Jeannine · « **Reply #41 on:** May 28, 2007, 12:58:24 »

Actually Tee Gee I rarely use any fertiliser stuff at all. I was beginning to think I was obselete. XX Jeannine

Rhubarb Thrasher · « **Reply #42 on:** May 28, 2007, 14:10:57 »

thanks Jeannine, I leant lots of new things prompted from this thread. I never knew that the German Navy shelled Hartlepool and Scarborough in 1914 for example, and I actually took the trouble to see what 4 oz of Growmore actually looks like, for the first time in 25 years

telboy · « **Reply #43 on:** May 28, 2007, 14:13:01 »

Good grief, the sun's just come out after two days of solid rain.
Will have to go to the plots to spread some growmore to replace what has been washed out!
I use BFB at planting time, the Bone element loses its' effectiveness @50%/year. So it's useful for 3 years - or so I've always been lead to believe.

Tee Gee · « **Reply #44 on:** May 28, 2007, 14:39:47 »

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the German Navy shelled Hartlepool and Scarborough in 1914

The story has it; the locals of Hartlepool hung a monkey in case they (the Germans) had sent it in as a spy along with the shells!!

telboy · « **Reply #45 on:** May 28, 2007, 15:19:54 »

Geordies still get very worked up about that!

cornykev · « **Reply #46 on:** May 28, 2007, 15:34:09 »

Tee Gee all the time I have been on this Forum I feel you have been one of the most knowledgable persons on it, but I am afraid I will have to correct you on the monkey hanging story. In fact it was during the Napoleonic wars that a monkey was washed up on the beach on the headlands in old Hartlepool from a shipwreck, they thought it was a French spy because they had never seen a Frenchman before so they hung the monkey thinking it was a French spy. ;D ;D ;D

Tee Gee · « **Reply #47 on:** May 28, 2007, 16:31:51 »

I stand corrected...........another ageing moment I guess........thanks for keeping me right!!

cornykev · « **Reply #48 on:** May 28, 2007, 17:31:37 »

The OH comes from Hartlepool and the outlaws are staying so its a story that stays in my head Tee Gee. ;D ;D ;D

Tee Gee · « **Reply #49 on:** May 28, 2007, 18:24:00 »

My mother was born there and I knew about the hanging of the monkey from her. Must have not been listening about the Frenchies!

cornykev · « **Reply #50 on:** May 28, 2007, 18:27:44 »

Stand in the corner Tee Gee and repeat one hundred times I must listen to mother. ;D ;D ;D

cornykev · « **Reply #51 on:** May 28, 2007, 18:30:00 »

Oh Telboy I've been told to tell you there not Geordies. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Rhubarb Thrasher · « **Reply #52 on:** May 28, 2007, 18:33:51 »

I'm a bit surprised I didn't realise about the bombing, cus the last time I was in Hartlepool, in about 1980, it looked as though they still hadn't got round to repairing rhe damage

Lots of places hung monkeys Looe in Cornwall for instance. The Napoleonic War was a bad time to be a monkey in the French Navy

DenBee · « **Reply #53 on:** May 28, 2007, 18:37:50 »

Monkey-hangers are GEORDIES? :o

Falls into the Tyne in shock :D

Whey ye bugger man!

DenBee · « **Reply #54 on:** May 28, 2007, 18:51:17 »

One does apologise for one's last post.

One had a burst of region-related patriotic fever. ;D

Jeannine · « **Reply #55 on:** May 28, 2007, 19:27:19 »

How did we get from fertilising rhubarb to hanging monkeys!!!

cornykev · « **Reply #56 on:** May 29, 2007, 16:16:37 »

Search me Jeannine but at least we've learnt a bit of history. ;D ;D ;D

cornykev · « **Reply #57 on:** May 29, 2007, 16:21:25 »

Oh I forgot can you put it on the rhubarb. ;D ;D ;D

Rohaise · « **Reply #58 on:** May 29, 2007, 16:31:54 »

Jeaninne...what have you started ? !!!! ::) Rohaise

Jeannine · « **Reply #59 on:** May 29, 2007, 17:56:19 »

It's good in't it.

Now who can tell me the story about the old woman who was supposed to turn stuff into stone somewhere in Yorkshire...old healer I think,went there as a kid and they hung my teddy up on a rope !!!???

XX Jeannine

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