FREE Phostrogen 1Kg plant food

George_Bray

I just bought some Phostrogen soluble, all purpose, feed at B&Q for about £4. And it comes with a label offering a free refund in return for your thoughts (min. 20 words) on the product. Easy! You simply send a stamped self addressed envelope and the till receipt within 14 days of purchase, before 15.3.06 - almost a year away but the packs with the free offer may not last quite that long. Phostrogen - this is nothing to do with B&Q - send you a full refund up to £3.99, plus the cost of a 2nd class stamp.

It must be worth trying.

I just hope this hasn't been listed before. I tried the MSE search on Phostrogen but it never produces any results for me.

Good luck

Regards
George

rizla01

The Company is PBI and the only thing free on their website is a huge PDF download about feeding plants.

Very useful download though

http://www.pbi.co.uk/phostrogen/freepubs.php

Hope this proves useful but thanks for the info regards the Free phostrogen. Will look out for the promotion next visit to B&Q.

Riz

noseley_2

As an experienced gardener, a student of environmental science and a bearer of simple reason. Its shocking to me that its even sold at all, the chemical factories should pay you to dispose of the stuff, because they themself could find no safe way to do it. Its poison, youd be crazy to put it in your soil.

For free houseplant feeding stick some old teabags in a watering can, if it doesn't offend your etiquitte, a small amount of urine and your normal dose of water serve at room temp-luke warm.

For outdoor plants, theres nothing like homemade compost. Put natural waste (veg scraps, egg shells, brown paper) in a heap or a bin with drainage. By the end of a year worms and bacteria should have turned it into marvellous rich compost.

George_Bray

noseley wrote:

...It's poison, youd be crazy to put it in your soil...

I'm interested in your warning. I sometimes use soluble plant food on my lawn, for ease of application. Why do you say it's poison? Why is it so bad compared to organic fertilisers? What detrimental effect, possibly long lasting, would you say it has on the soil?

I already make compost from all my kitchen and green garden waste and can strongly recommend it to others, even if mine may now be 'contaminated' with man made fertiliser.

Regards
George

peter_the_planter

I'd be interested to know how much Beer/Tea/Water I'd have to drink to feed my 6000 boxes of bedding plants and 20k plus potted plants each day. Bet the neighbors would complain about the whiff. Seriously though I'm more than a little concerned about organic gardening, fish meal is a widely used fertiliser made from industrially hoovered up sandeels as well as fish waste. Now the stocks of sandeels are going down the RSPB is finding that seabirds are not producing young as well as they used to. Unfortunately nothing is without a price.

rizla01

FREE FERTILIZER.

JUST A NOTE THAT i'M SURE WILL BE APPRECIATED.

EVERY YEAR I COLLECT A BIN FULL OF STINGING NETTLES AND COVER THEM IN WATER FOR A FEW DAYS AFTER PULVERISING THEM.

NETTLES ONLY GROW WHERE THERE IS A LOT OF NITROGEN IN THE GROUND AND THEREFORE STORE A LOT OF THIS NUTRIENT. I THINK I AM CORRECT IN STATING THAT NITROGEN IS NEEDED FOR GREEN GROWTH I.E. LEAVES, GRASS ETC.

DON'T LEAVE FOR TOO LONG AS THE MIX WILL GO RANCID AND YOUR NEIGHBOURS WILL DEFINITELY NOT THANK YOU FOR THE SMELL.

USE DILUTED AMOUNTS ON YOUR PLANTS FOR A GOOD SPURT OF GROWTH.

NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO APPLY IT.

RIZ

redfox

I'm moving this to Shop but don't drop as it's not really a Quick! Grabbit with an expiry date of 06