On Apr 12, 8:41*pm, 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?

Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraphhttp://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk


I'd use slow release fertriliser and move the mulch away when applying
it, then recover.
If you have foxes around then using Blood fish and bone would result
in them having a field day looking for the food they can smell.
As Mulch breaks down it uses Nitroben, so putting the fertiliser on
top would reduce the Nitrogen available for the plants and would speed
up the breakdown of your mulch.