Plant Feeding Techniques - PlantGalore UK

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Plant Feeding Techniques
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Plants need a mix of nutrients, just as humans
need to consume a mix of protein, fat,
carbohydrate, minerals and vitamins. They
particularly need nitrogen (N) for leaf growth,
phosphorus (P) for root growth, and potassium (K)
for fruit growth. All plants need all three, but
leafy crops particularly need nitrogen, and fruit
crops won't develop well without enough
potassium.
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Here Are Some Of The Easiest Ways For Plant
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Nitrogen
Your salads and other leafy crops wont flourish
unless they have enough nitrogen. Chicken manure
pellets are cheap, easy to source, and contain
most of the essential nutrients for plants. They
are particularly high in nitrogen. I use them all
the time for rejuvenating old compost to grow
salads. Simply mix a handful into your compost
before you plant your salads.
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Potassium
To get good yields of tomatoes, runner beans,
squash, chillies, strawberries and other fruiting
crops from containers, you need to regularly add
additional potassium (K). The easiest way to do
this is to buy a bottle of tomato feed. Although
called tomato feed, this will do the job for all
fruiting crops.
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Vitamins And Minerals
Liquid seaweed is an excellent source of vitamins
and minerals. You can add it to your watering can
once a week to keep your plants healthy. Or, to
make a precious bottle go further, you can spray
it on to the leaves of your crops using a simple
hand spray (an empty spray bottle, cleaned well,
works perfectly).
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Soil Life
Healthy soil contains an invisible and amazing
array of bacteria and fungi which digest the
nutrients you are adding, releasing it to the
roots of your hungry plants. You can buy various
products such as mycorrhizal fungi to add life to
your pots. But one of the best sources is worm
compost or worm tea. You can make this at home in
a wormery.
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Worm Compost
Worm compost is fantastic for containers as well
as soil life its rich in the vitamins and
minerals your plants need, as well as some of the
major nutrients. Mix 10 - 25 into old compost to
rejuvenate it, or add 5 - 10 to new compost to
add soil life. Add a layer of an inch or two to
hungry crops like courgettes and tomatoes to give
them a boost half way through the growing season.
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Here Are Some Of The Easiest Ways For Plant
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How Much To Feed?
Feeding crops is as an art as well as a science.
How much you feed depends on lots of variables
the size of pot, what compost youre using, how
big your plant is, and how fast its growing. The
secret is to give it a go, observe the
difference, and learn from the results. As a
general rule, little and often is the safest
strategy (too much feeding is as bad as too
little). And feed more when your crops are
fruiting.
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