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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: davholla on March 01, 2016, 16:11:09

Title: Feeding apples, raspberries and blueberries
Post by: davholla on March 01, 2016, 16:11:09
I have chicken manure pellets, sulfate of potash and turbobooster.
What should I feed to above fruits and when (I guess ASAP).
Title: Re: Feeding apples, raspberries and blueberries
Post by: saddad on March 02, 2016, 21:24:29
I just chuck a bit of growmore at them in March...  :wave:
Title: Re: Feeding apples, raspberries and blueberries
Post by: davholla on March 02, 2016, 21:27:05
Do you know what nutrients it contains?
Title: Re: Feeding apples, raspberries and blueberries
Post by: Tee Gee on March 02, 2016, 21:42:50
I do the same as Saddad.

Grow more is a balanced fertiliser 7-7-7 as I recall and it does enough to get the plants up and running then when they flower you can consider a high potash feed to plump up the fruit.
Title: Re: Feeding apples, raspberries and blueberries
Post by: davholla on March 03, 2016, 09:56:27
Thank you all.
Title: Re: Feeding apples, raspberries and blueberries
Post by: johhnyco15 on March 03, 2016, 16:38:30
blueberries id feed a small amount of sulphate of iron twice a year  sulphate of potash will do the rest this will encourage flowering and fruit set but any balanced fertilizer will do the job as the others have said
Title: Re: Feeding apples, raspberries and blueberries
Post by: tricia on March 03, 2016, 17:16:49
I still have chicken manure pellets from last year, so I shall be using them for all my fruit bushes and trees - just waiting for a day that isn't too wet and windy! If there are any left they will be spread over the squash bed prior to the plants going in towards the end of May.

Tricia :wave:
Title: Re: Feeding apples, raspberries and blueberries
Post by: realfood on March 13, 2016, 18:13:23
Blueberries require an acidic fertiliser, such as  an ericaceous fertiliser. Chicken pellets are alkaline.
Title: Re: Feeding apples, raspberries and blueberries
Post by: tricia on March 13, 2016, 22:42:34
Quote from: realfood on March 13, 2016, 18:13:23
Blueberries require an acidic fertiliser, such as  an ericaceous fertiliser. Chicken pellets are alkaline.

Just as well I don't have any blueberries then!  :wave:

Tricia