Westland Fish, Blood and Bone All Purpose Plant Food, 10 kg

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During soil preparation: Sprinkle bone meal fertiliser evenly over the soil or add to planting compost. Make sure it's mixed well. If the weather is dry, water in well. Fish, blood and bone is far easier to work with than manure or other smelly soil improvers and natural feeds. 3) Organic and Natural You can use this type of fertiliser on crops as well as ornamental plants. It’s safe and natural. 4) It’s Sold in Large Quantities

New plants: Once you've made a planting hole fork a small amount of bone meal for plants into the hole. You can also add it to the compost and soil that will be used as the planting mixture. Water thoroughly. Pretty much all slow-release fertilisers are good for grass. The biggest problem with grass fertilisers is often leaf scorch, leading to brown, or even dead patches of turf. Using blood and bone is a gentle alternative that supports all round health, and helps to make other soil nutrients available to your lawn. Make sure the soil around the tree is thoroughly moist (but not sodden) before applying the mulch. Late winter is the ideal time to mulchFish, blood and bone fertiliser is perfect as it fully dissolves in about 3-4 weeks and provides gradually released nutrients to the plants without burning them.

Base dressing: This is the incorporation of fertiliser into the soil or potting compostbefore sowing or planting. Fertilisers aren’t the only way to help soil maintain nutrients and keep plants growing healthily. Before the 19th century, most farmers fertilised crops using more basic organic techniques, such as using manure or planting legumes with nitrogen-fixing bacteria in their roots. Meanwhile, greater awareness of environmental issues has made growers consider returning to more nature-friendly ways of growing. Vegetable plots: If you're using a bone meal for your vegetable plot, add fertiliser and fork it into the soil before sowing any seeds. Blood and bone is ideal for roses, and can help to supplement other fertilisers and mulches like rotted cow or horse manure. Its gentle release of nutrients is soft enough to not impact the roses in their early spring stage but will support flower health and help blooms last longer on the plant, as well as when cut. Organic growers can use similar amounts of dried poultry manure pellets with some organic potassium every three yearsBlood Fish & Bone is a granular, powdered material which can be applied via hand or fertiliser spreader to all plants and crops. Using this product couldn’t be easier and it can be introduced in the preparation of soil for new planting or to support already established plants. There are a few simple steps to follow depending on when you are applying the Fish Blood & Bone Slow Release Fertiliser. Bone meal is especially high in phosphorus and calcium, but not much else. During fruiting, bone meal should be applied as a preventative measure or treatment for calcium-related deficiencies, or if you notice the onset of bud rot or bud drop in any plant. Flowering annuals, herbaceous perennials, and any flowering shrub that flowers mostly through summer and autumn will also benefit greatly from blood and bone, which has slower effects through the season from a single spring application, rather than using liquid fertilisers throughout the season. What Plants should not be given blood and bone? Sprinkle the fertiliser over the tree's rooting area (that is the area just beyond the branch canopy). Moderate the quantities given if the trees are growing vigorously

One frequently used replacement for blood, fish and bone fertiliser is Growmore. This is a chemical fertiliser first invented during World War Two that provides equal amounts of all three main nutrients. However, blood, fish and bone is more preferable to Growmore due to its slower release of nutrients, allowing plants to take them up more efficiently. Growmore stays in the soil for only seven to 10 days, while blood, fish and bone fertiliser lasts for between four and six weeks. How do veggie and vegan fertilisers compare? When using before planting or sowing apply Blood Fish & Bone at 140g/m² and lightly fork or rake into the soil. When using this product as a top dressing apply at 70g/m² and lightly fork into the soil. Method one: Each year, use a potassium-rich general fertiliser (rose fertiliser for example) in late winter as directed by the manufacturer.Here are 6 reasons why you should try fish, blood and bone fertiliser: 1) Gradual-Release but Not Slow-Release Fertilisers are made to cover the three main nutrients for crop growing and are known as NPK fertilisers, because they contain nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P) and potassium (K). The NPK ratio needed from a fertiliser will depend on the crops being grown and the quality of the soil from which the plants will draw their nutrients. Which products are available to growers? While blood, fish and bone is one alternative to synthetic fertilisers, vegetarians can rest assured that there are plenty of other adequate fertiliser options out there. Sources It’s easy for plants to absorb and take up, and is slow-release to benefit plants for months at a time.