Potting on

[james1]

 Does everybody add fertilizer to there compost when its time for potting on young seedlings. or dont you bother to add any until planting out time.
If so what do you use or am i being to nosey..

[allaboutliverpool]

Another one up at 5am!

For the first week or two, there is no need to feed as commercial  composts have added fertiliser.

After that, a weekly liquid feed such as -

Sangral 3:1:3  (21% Nitrogen +7% Phosphate +24% Potash)
Use for vegetative growth phases in longer days when light intensity is high and plants are growing quickly. Sangral is suitable for both soil and container grown crops.

There are different feeds that provide the right balance for different phases of growth.

Failing that, Miracle-Gro or Phostrogen will do.

http://www.allaboutallotments.com/index.html

[Tee Gee]

This is my view on the subject;

http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Data/Compost/Compost.htm

[pigeonseed]

Thanks Tee Gee, very useful.

[Ian Pearson]

If you do want to feed, and don't want the expense of manufactured liquid fertiliser, you can use pee diluted about 20:1. This will give good levels of N, a fair bit of K, and a small amount of P. Certainly good enough if you just want to keep the plants in their pots for another few weeks beyond the life of the compost nutrients.

Also an excellent feed for leafy brassica plants.

Put it on Comfrey plants neat!

[james1]

Thanks for helpful replies.......... Ian I don't fancy using diluted pee to feed my veg plants if my wife knew what i was doing she wouldn't eat them. heard its OK to put on the compost heap tho i think that's what i will do..
Tee gee ex cellant website i should of referred to it because i already have it book marked.
Allaboutliverpool am one of those people who suffer with insomnia or going to bed to early  I Will try sangral never heard of it but i will get it. Also love your web site Ive been on your site a couple times. Am definitely going to try and grow a big pumpkin this year like the one you grew.......

[Ian Pearson]

You don't have to tell her!! 

[Robert_Brenchley]

I have a pee barrel which I use for liquid manure. Dilute it well. Last year I tried an experiment; I peed on the same clump of rhubarb all season. Mostly it was quite happy, but when we had a dry spell, and it wasn't leaching out, it wilted.

[Ian Pearson]

Haaaahh! just back from giving my sprouting broccolis a nitrogenous liquid feed.
 

[james1]

 

[Le-y]

does it matter who's pee you use? I'm potty training my toddler and seems easier to save his pee than mine?

[Robert_Brenchley]

Doesn't matter, it's all got lots of nitrogen in it.

[Ian Pearson]

As non-organic farmers say 'nitrogen is nitrogen'
As organic gardeners say 'pee is pee'

Granular synthetic Urea at 300 Euros/tonne, or pee for free. Take your pick.

[cornykev]

I only piss in my compost bins, I don't think birds wee is as good as ours.        

[Robert_Brenchley]

If I remember, birds don't pee. I think the white stuff in their poo is equivalent.

[Vinlander]

Don't forget pee has quite a lot of salt in it, so accurate dilution is important. Standard dilutions are proabably aimed at straw-coloured liquid (colour of a jamjar full), so if it's darker use extra dilution.

If you are feeding seashore-loving plants then you can be a lot less fussy - the best example is the beet family but onions count too.

BTW. pee is sterile when it comes out - it used to be carefully saved and used fresh (very effectively) for washing wounds in WW1!

Anything unpleasant that grows in it afterwards has come from elsewhere...

[Wilder]

there are the inevitable bugs it picks up on it's way out of the ureter, and there's a lot more landscape to be navigated in the female of the species so make sure you use it straight away rather than wait for the warm envirnment to provide an ideal enviornment for growth.

(that said I'm hard-pressed to think of anything that you might culture than wouldn't be killed by adding to your compost bin! LOL!)

[james1]

Ok Ok am out voted. Its diluted Pee for my veg.