"Jeannie" wrote in message
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" Jeanne Stockdale" wrote in message
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Our main veg patch has and is being very successful - due I am
sure to the
amount of manure and compost which has been dug into it over the
past
couple
of years.

A couple of months ago we rotavated a strip in our adjoining field
to
enable
us to extend our range of veg. Courgettes (which we had grown from
seed in
the greenhouse) are doing fine - having been planted with lots of
compost.
But the seeds we sowed - broad beans, french beans, carrots and
sweetcorn -
and "thinnings" of cabbages and cauliflowers are not doing so
well.

I am sure they need some sort of feed but not sure what. Hubby
scattered
chicken manure pellets around but that doesn't seem to have
helped.

Any suggestions?

Jeanne Stockdale



Feed beans with a solution of 2 tbsp Epsom Salts dissolved in a full
watering can.

Surely that is grossly too concentrated a Magnesium source? After all,
Mg is only a trace element.

Make some nettle or comfrey brew for the rest, sweetcorn and
brussels especially respond to that, but most plants will benefit
from
feeding with it.

If indeed the soil is impoverished, applying Growmore at the normally
recommended rate is a well-balanced fertiliser which additionally
probably contains all the trace elements you need, as unspecified
impurities.

Franz