To get the very best from your garden, the biggest blooms, the best tasty fruits and gorgeous vegetables, it’s always worth feeding your plants, but the array of things we can use is quite large. So today we’re going to take a look at things and try to get rid of some confusion.
Now every fertilizer can be slightly different. There are different formulations, some are granules soluble powders, some liquids and they all contain different levels of nutrients.
To have a look for and if you look at a packet of fertilizer you’ll see on the back three letters, N, P, and K and that stands for nitrogen phosphates, the potash. And when you look at that ratio and then grow more, the ratio is 7/7/7, so we’ve got equal amounts of nitrogen phosphate and potash in that food, and that’s a good all-round fertilizer to use on the garden organic others might like to use blood fish and bone again.
A lovely equal balance of products in here and again bone meal is another good, organic product use, and this is high in phosphates. Now those three ingredients help plants grow in different ways, so what plants need is nitrogen to help them produce leaves and leafy growth? They need phosphates to help the roots develop well, and they need potash to help them make flowers and fruits.
If you’ve got hanging baskets and pots and containers, you might want to use a slow-release fertilizer, and this is something that comes as a granule, and you can mix this into the compost at planting time and just mix it well in or later in the year.
Just make some holes in the compost and tip a few teaspoons of slow release, fertilizer down into the compost itself and in warm weather or when the compost is moist. Those nutrients are released slowly to feed the plants.
They get the best flowering performance from your annuals, which you want to flower right. The way through summer and into autumn now around the garden is good to have a general fertilizer close at hand and a soluble feed like this is perfect.
Look at the instructions on the packet and follow these closely. Mainly if the soluble feeds also come with a little measure, and I know that with this one one-level scoop of feed is all you need to dilute it into 4,5, liters or gallon of water Mix it up to dissolve it and just use that to water all your parts, your plants, anything around the garden that you think needs feeding and when it comes to knowing when plants need feeding it’s worth, taking a close look at them.
You might find that, rather than having lovely green leaves, sometimes the leaves of plants start looking pale and yellow. They’ll have zones on the leaf, almost stripes, which is called chlorosis, and this is telling me on this raspberry, but the plants themselves need feed mixing up In Washington is fine or some feeds come that can be dissolved in like this.
Easy feeder attaches to your hose pipe put the fertilizer in the container turn the water on and you’ll get instant liquid feed to sprout your lawns, your flower, and borders or feed your patio pots and containers, or you can mix up some fertilizer into a pressure, sprayer and spray fertilizer onto the underside of leaves and they’ll take up some of the nutrition. That way, there’s a range of different formulations available to choose from, and this one is a plant food that is ready to use, and with this particular fertilizer, all you’ve got to do is use the solution directly onto the compost.
If I just tip the feed onto the compost in house plants or patio pots or whatever it’s all you need to do is ready to use straight from the bottle without diluting. If you’ve got tomatoes in the greenhouse or in the garden, we know that what we want from those is you want to keep the plants healthy and we’ve got the NPK, the nitrogen phosphate and potash, and lots of other micronutrients the vitamins which are in the plants Themselves and with a tomato feed, we make a make sure that those tomatoes stay healthy and give us the very best crops.
These come as powders or liquids, and this one you just literally dilute in a watering, can and use to feed your plants. Follow the instructions on the bottle themselves or on the packet and you’ll find they probably need to be used about every week or every 10 days to keep the plants healthy humans like the way through the season.
There are other fertilizers that like to grow. Your own one for a Miracle Grow which is perfect for crops around the garden and for roses, choose a special rose fertilizer like top rows or verve rose food, and this has got all the nutrients.
You need the nitrogen phosphate and potash the healthy growth and all the micronutrients, so you’ve got healthy leaves that are more resistant to disease, and the nutrients plants need to keep them flowering right.
The way through the growing season, you’ve even got the Verve liquid seaweed, and this is like a tonic for plants as well, so you can dilute this in a watering can and it helps the fertilizers work more effectively.
Now, if you are growing ericaceous plants in your garden, like camellias or rhododendrons or azaleas, use a specialist ericaceous plant food, whether they’re in the garden or their own pots, you can sprinkle this onto the compost surface or there are liquid formulations as well to water.
On and keep the plaster clean, and healthy and if you are handling plant food, it’s worth wearing a pair of gardening, gloves to protect your skin. A lot of people have got sensitive skin. So it’s always a wise idea to put gardening gloves on when you’re handling compost when you’re all fertilizers and then wash your hands thoroughly after use.
It’s certainly going to be a fertilizer that does the job so give your plants of feed and you’ll get the very best fun.
