On 12/04/2011 20:41, Janet Tweedy wrote:
What's the most efficient way of feeding plants that have a mulch of
bark chippings around them? Last year I foliar fed but wondered if i
could get away with lobbing handfuls of long term granules or maybe even
chicken manure pellets or fish blood and bone around and allowing
rainfall to filter it down to the soil?

That will tend to lose nitrogen to rotting down the bark quicker.

Better to rake the bark out of the way and put slow release fertiliser
under it or at least towards the bottom. Slower to do but more effective.

Regards,
Martin Brown