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    Hey folks

    I am getting confused reading different stuff about what to use to fertilise and enrich the veg patch. I am lookig for something to add now, for this season. I read that manure should be put in the year before as new manure will burn the roots.

    I am off out today to get what i need to prepare the soil for planting - its dug over, a reclaimed bed which used to have giant hollies and other shrubs. What should i get?

    Thanks for reading

  • #2
    As the area has been growing trees I'd make sure I added some organic matter as well - bags of 'farmyard manure' sold in garden centres and DIY sheds
    https://www.kent-coal.co.uk/organic-...17pBoCggfw_wcB
    are nothing like real manure IMO so I'd use a few bags of that as soil conditioner.

    Blood Fish and Bone is the organic alternative to Growmore, a general fertiliser.
    It's what I use on my plot on the areas I haven't added real manure to.

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    • #3
      Ok great - got a few options now! My seedligs are nowhere near ready yet but i want to get the ground ready for about a months time

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      • #4
        Cheapest mpc you can find.

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        • #5
          Foxes like blood fish and bone.
          Riddlesdown (S Croydon)

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          • #6
            I was concerned about this, but asking others on my allotment site, they have had no problems with digging.

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            • #7
              I use Marshalls 'Organic Extra' a concentrated dried farm yard manure. Nice and light and very easy to use.
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