"Linda H" wrote in message
godwin wrote:


The most
economic fertilizer i believe to be 'meat meal' this is blood 'n
bone
that's used for feeding stock. it's usually cheaper to buy than
when
it's labelled Blood 'n bone.

It contains all the main nutrients and has a prolonged effect. If
I was
planting a major woody perrenial i'd make yp a mix in a bucket of
eight
parts meat meal, two parts chicken manure, and one part urea. mix
that
up and dig a hole at least twice as deep as the pot you're plant
is in.



Oh and Godwin? When you say a "part" how much do you reckon is one
part, a handful? (Let's just say I was going to plant something
like
um... a lemon tree, for example.) And would you get meat meal at a
stock feed supplies place?

The "part" can be anything by measure. It can be 8 buckets or 8
handfulls. Just make sure that when you add the 2 parts chicken
manure (or whatever it is you're adding by part) then you measure out
the 2 parts by the same measure as you used the first time round (ie
either a bucket or a handful or whatever your "part" measure happened
to be).