"Kay" wrote in message
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In article , RichardS
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Last year at Hampton Court we bought a couple of delphiniums from one of
the
specialist exhibitors there.

We have a desperate problem with snails here (less so with slugs), and I
mentioned that my previous planted-out dephiniums perhaps lasted a week
before they had been devoured beyond the point of flourishing.

Their advice was to leave them in the pots until late-spring this year,
and
feed them with XXX food until they were big enough to be able to cope
with
the onslaught.

Problem is I can't remember for the life of me whether XXX was rose
fertiliser or tomato food. My instinct is that it was rose fertiliser.

Anyone able to confirm or correct this?


having this morning read the ingredients on a whole shelf full of
assorted fertilisers including rose feed and tomato feed, they all seem
to be relatively high in potassium, and it won't make a lot of
difference which you use. Rose fertilisers seem to be stronger overall
than tomato fertilisers, so presumably you would use them less
frequently.



Thanks, Kay. So high potassium is what I'm after? If so I'll go with
whichever is highest of my rose or tom fertilisers.

--
Richard Sampson

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richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk