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Delphinium Food
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? -- Richard Sampson mail me at richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk |
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writes 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. -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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"Kay" wrote in message news In article , RichardS writes 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 mail me at richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk |
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In article , RichardS
writes "Kay" wrote in message news 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. Not necessarily ;-) Search for Dave Poole's recent post on the topic - sorry, I can't remember which thread, and although I 'kept' it I can't find it at this second. Gist was that phosphorous initiated the production of lots of flowers, though once the flowers are developing, high potassium helps their development. But since what is available in both tomato fertiliser and rose fertiliser is high potassium, then it doesn't make much difference which of them you use. I suppose advice might be to go for whichever high potassium fertiliser has the highest phoshorous compared with nitrogen content? -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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"Kay" wrote in message ... In article , RichardS writes "Kay" wrote in message news 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. Not necessarily ;-) Search for Dave Poole's recent post on the topic - sorry, I can't remember which thread, and although I 'kept' it I can't find it at this second. Gist was that phosphorous initiated the production of lots of flowers, though once the flowers are developing, high potassium helps their development. But since what is available in both tomato fertiliser and rose fertiliser is high potassium, then it doesn't make much difference which of them you use. I suppose advice might be to go for whichever high potassium fertiliser has the highest phoshorous compared with nitrogen content? Thanks again - I'll find that thread. I did actually search google before posting the q, but as ever, probably missed the result due to incorrect search terms (bah - and I call myself a professional programmer!!!). -- Richard Sampson mail me at richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk |
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"RichardS" wrote in message ... "Kay" wrote in message ... In article , RichardS writes "Kay" wrote in message news 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. Not necessarily ;-) Search for Dave Poole's recent post on the topic - sorry, I can't remember which thread, and although I 'kept' it I can't find it at this second. Try Dave's post at 09:04 on 23/04 in reply to New Gardens Miracle Gro. HTH -- Graham W http://www.gcw.org.uk/ PGM-FI page updated, Graphics Tutorial WIMBORNE http://www.wessex-astro-society.freeserve.co.uk/ Wessex Dorset UK Astro Society's Web pages, Info, Meeting Dates, Sites & Maps Change 'news' to 'sewn' in my Reply address to avoid my spam filter. |
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