When to start feeding shrubs and other plants

Beeblebr0x

When do you start to feed your shrubs etc., how often, and with what? I'm reluctant to try blood, fish & bone due to the foxes.

kl_jones2021

I use a diluted seaweed feed and I started this weekend but I don’t have many foxes around me. 

Green_hopeful

I don’t really feed anything. Perhaps some homemade compost as a mulch but more to keep the water in the soil. 

fatbelly

Now is a good time.

I used bonemeal earlier in the year. Try to rub it in to the soil rather than leave it on the top.

Blood, fish and bone would be a good organic choice for use in April. Or use growmore

Beeblebr0x

Yes, Growmore works out a lot cheaper than Miracle Gro

-taff

what about chicken poo pellets? Should be safe from the foxes

twopenny

Chickens - Foxes????

Maybe not.

One way to find out.

You can do a liquid feed of Tomato fertiliser too but it's easier to sprinkle something.

When - I tend to do it when things start bursting into leaf to support the new growth. That was early for us down south this year.

A good idea to do it when rain is forcast so it gets washed into the soil.

-taff

no, chicken poo pellets come in a bag or a tub...not chickens!

Farway

-taff said:

no, chicken poo pellets come in a bag or a tub...not chickens!

What, like dog biscuits?