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[Flo]

Hi

 

What does everybody use to feed their plants and vegetables with? I am realatively new to gardening and not sure what everything needs. Can anyone recommend anything good and preferably organic?

 

Thanks

[Couperman]

The putrid smelly liquid 'worm pee' from the wormery is what I use, watered down at a ratio of 1:10.

 

Its pretty potent stuff and smells very organic indeed

 

I have heard people using 'sheep dung tea' as well, so I guess you could do the same with chicken manure, i.e. put in a hessien sack and submerge it in water for a few months and then use that. Some of the more accomplished veggie growers on here will know better, this is my first stab at growing veggies really.

 

I am sure you can buy organic fertilzer too.

 

Kev.

[AMO]

I use chicken poo as I seem to have a lot of it these days!

 

I have an old watering can which gets 2/3 scoops of poo and then covered with water. After about a week it is all liquified and I then dilute it into another watering can - no rule of thumb just a weaker mix for young plants and stronger as the plant mature.

 

Seems to be working as everything has shot up brilliantly!

[Christian]

I dig my chicken poo into the ground in autumn/winter. I use seaweed extract as a fertilizer. You only need a very small amout and just water it in whenever you remember (i don't think that is the exact way to do it though )

 

Most garden centres sell it now

[Flo]

thank you for the suggestions, I think I will give the seaweed extract a go!

[chickencam]

I believe seaweed extract helps plants to tolerate drought conditions, we use it on our brassicas particularly on our allotment which has very light sandy soil.

[Flo]

I decided to empty out my compost bin last night as it was full, I have one of those plastic ones with the hole at the bottom. I was surprised at how much lovely compost came out! The chicken poo really works wonders in there.

[Jen&Rog]

Hello! Just watch out that you don't give the plants a liquid feed (like seaweed) when they're dry. I did this to my tomatoes and it was a complete shock to the system, they wilted almost to the point of no return! Make sure the soil's moist first.