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Posted by james (U14886159) on Monday, 30th May 2011
Was wondering if anyone knew any good home made simple to make plant feed.The plant feed will be for different types of vegetables will the mean needing to use different things for different plants e.t.c.
Thanks in advance
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You cannot beat a sack of sheep droppings in a water butt. Use a couple of plasticky onion bags as they don't rot. Dashed good stir before turning on the tap. Luverly stuff. Cheers, Tony.
Just wondering why you want to go to so much trouble- there are so many good propriety brands that do the job for you.What is it that you are trying to achieve?
Geoff
Gives you a warm feeling feeding your veggies food you have made yourself. Cheers, Tony.
Was wondering if anyone knew any good home made simple to make plant feed.The plant feed will be for different types of vegetables will the mean needing to use different things for different plants e.t.c.
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Hi James,
comprey, It's an old method of feeding plants and shrubs, once you've grown the plants you'll always have a good stock of leaves in and it's simple to both make a liquid feed and also keep your compost heap supplied as the leaves do nothing but good to the compost,
I myself have an old "cleaned out " 45 gal oil drum, once its filled with water,
I fill a sack of the comprey leaves plus a few rocks "to help sink the sack" leave this mix for about 6 weeks and then use at a ratio of 1 part comprey to 9 parts water,
Warning while the comprey is "shall we say settling down" it stinks and i do mean stink, so have the drum away from your nose and neighbours noses.
Just wondering why you want to go to so much trouble- there are so many good propriety brands that do the job for you.What is it that you are trying to achieve?
Geoff
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HI Geoff,
results, proved by time tested use, plus the less you spend on purchased feeds in a bottle the more you'll have to spend on plants/ seeds etc.
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Posted by Playingtimeaddedon (U14150224) on Tuesday, 31st May 2011
You could always buy a wormery and use the liquid that it produces.
The most popular one on the allotments here is comfrey tea. If you don't have comfrey you can use nettles. You could apply a bit of growmore to most outdoor vegetables about now, unless you are growing organically. However you feed your vegetables, they all appreciate a good mulch.
On my bag of dried chicken poo pellets, it says that you can dissolve 1 or 2 handfuls into a gallon of water for a liquid feed. It recommends the brew as especially good for toms and cukes in grow bags, but also as a good all round feed.
I haven't tried it, but your thread reminded me about it so I think I'll give it go.
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Posted by ladynovicegardener (U5368058) on Tuesday, 31st May 2011
I've lots of chicken pellets but never heard of making them into a liquid. Must give it a try. Thanks.
Hello, Thanks all for replying will try a few different methods and see which works best.
The reason I wish to make it myself is yes one it is cheaper but also I don't like using to many chemicals on my vegetables.
Thanks all
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Posted by ladynovicegardener (U5368058) on Wednesday, 1st June 2011
I've read a bit about this now and it seems it's really difficult to get the pellets to dissolve. I think I'll just dig them into the soil the way I usually do. I've Comfrey and nettle fertiliser on the go so that'll have to do.
James, everything is chemicals, but I know what you mean ! Cheers, Tony.
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