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I feed them with tomato fertiliser.

Well, it's fairly closely related to the tomato, though sometimes I feed
more-or-less everything soft and fruity with stinking nettle soup.

Marrows, cucumbers, chillis, tomatoes all love it.

For anyone who doesn't know about it, just steep a heap of nettles in a
bucket/tub of water. When the smell is so bad it turns you over, put a
peg on your nose (or wear a diving-suit), abstract a pint or so of the
stuff and dilute it in a watering can, and feed your plants with it.
Caulis, celery, etc love it.

Not suitable for root veg, and onions if overdone, nor for woody plants
- it makes them put on too much foliage. (eg, grapes, currants,
goosegogs etc. Seems to be OK for blackberries, though. Oh, and
rhubarb...)

Most things where you're after flowers or fruit work well with tomato
fertiliser. OK, probably best to get the 'correct' fertiliser for each
group of plants, but if you haven't got that many, it's easier just to
have one fertiliser that you use for everything.

Hmmm. Must scour the shops for some fat hen fertiliser...

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Rusty
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