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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Sarah-b on March 28, 2005, 17:39:06
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Hi everyone - just got back from a great day on the plot. I'm very excited as the garlic is looking really great. Would a feed of any kind do it more good? or should I just leave it alone?
Thanks,
Sarah.
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My winter garlic ( put in in october) I feed with "some"horse manure from March on.
Having free drainage, sandy soil, and putting in compost/ or leaf mould in soil before planting, and having enough nutrient in the soil than I put in every 14 days a light fertilizer, f i a bit manure or liquid manure. I keep the weeds away, very careful by hand and when the soil gets very dry ( when o when will that be?) I water, spec. when the leaves are developing.
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I know I've said it before, but the Garlic Farm say 2oz Potash in February. Not really too late??
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Lucky you Sarah!
The weather here ( oop North east coast ) has been awful and did
not entice me to my lottie which would have been a mud bath due to the rain :'(
Shall be there any time after work this week - lighter nights YIPPEE!!!
Debs
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FYM as above and some fish blood and bone now
Phil
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I chucked some pelletted chicken manure at mine about a week ago. When should I give it some more?
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Aqui,
Pelleted chicken manure is usually high in nitrogen so I wouldn't give it more - as Tim says potash is the thing use, bone meal it stays around longer than the chemical stuff which leaches out easily
phil
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Oh heck. I must learn to read the labels.
So tomato feed it is, then???
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That should be ok, Aqui, unfortunately alliums, cos of their leaves, don't take up much goodness through them. But it will get in through the roots
phil