Liquid feed

Can I ask for advice about which is a good general purpose (specifically strawberries in first instance) liquid feed please? I have absolutely no nettles in my garden!!! so difficult to make my own. If I put down blood fish bone, it attracts foxes even if I fork it in. I always get good advice from experts on here, for which I'm very grateful, and so is my garden.

 

Hiya JJ28, I would use an organic seaweed liquid feed on your edibles

 

I'd just use Miracle grow, you can spend £££s buying specific liquid feeds, I do use tom food late in the season, so for strawbs I can see the advantage.

I've never been sure about this seaweed thing, it just seems to double the price of something that is basically a chemical feed.

 

Did someone mention Comfrey tea? I have a dustbin full of the stuff and my tomatoes seem to be growing in that direction

 

In the direction of the dustbin?

 

Someone doubting seaweed???
I used to get loads of seaweed from the beach and mulch the garden several inches thick with it over the autumn......results? Excellent weed free mulch, excellent slug and snail control (they hate both the texture and saltyness of it), crops loved it and I hardly ever used additional fertilisers.
Seaweed is a wonderful tonic to plants, feeds them slowly and surely and toughens them up. Organic seaweed spray is ideal for most everything

 

I'm not doubting seaweed, I'm doubting those that stick it on the bottle,

Just put, "with added seaweed extract", and you can double the price.
Add to that an "organic" label and the sky is the limit.

 

For edible crops I always use organic fertilisers. Growing our own food means we can avoid chemical additives which are rife in most everything we buy. Agree with Marley

 

I guess you pay your money and you take your choice.
How you know what you are getting when its in a bottle I dont know

 

I have tomato feed so will give strawberries a slooch of that tomorrow. Also have chicken pellets so will dig some into where runner beans will go. I'm interested in using seaweed, can get lots when tide out - does it need lots of rinsing to get salt off before putting onto soil?

 

Concerning seaweed, when used fresh it is better used in autumn. There is a high salt element but this is washed out over the winter when fewer plants are affected by it. I would not use fresh seaweed around plants at this time of year.

Chicken pellets are good JJ28. For me, it is all about "feeding the soil" rather than feeding the plants. Organic feeds will do this