Growmore fertiliser?????

[Tee Gee]

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  ;)

[Tee Gee]

[Jeannine]

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

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

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]

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]

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]

Geordies still get very worked up about that!

[cornykev]

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]

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

[cornykev]

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]

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]

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

[cornykev]

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

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

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]

Monkey-hangers are GEORDIES?  :o

Falls into the Tyne in shock :D

Whey ye bugger man!

[DenBee]

One does apologise for one's last post.

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

[Jeannine]

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

[cornykev]

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

[cornykev]

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

[Rohaise]

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

[Jeannine]

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