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    Definitive Guide to which plants need which Manures/feeds/fertilisers

    Is there somewhere to turn for a definitive guide? I have well rotted horse manure, grow more and now a hefty bucket full of chicken manure pellets. Is there a list of what each plant prefers and which each plant rejects.

    Something for he magazine maybe? Though I want to get on with it so thinking about it, best online!
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    Does this post by Nicos help?
    Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
    By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
    While better men than we go out and start their working lives
    At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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    • #3
      It does, a lot, thank you. I will learn this off by heart. But a bigger all encompassing article or rulebook would be good, because, with chicken manure for example, it has all three in and I read somewhere don't put it on apples, somewhere else they said do add it to apples. I'll print off that link and take it over tomorrow and compare it with the ingerdients in each.
      D.O.B 24/12/65
      Mothers Maiden Name: Anger
      Favourite City: Tokyo
      Pet's name: Quiet Bob
      Name of the Town you were born in: Blackheath
      Memorable name: Nivea20
      World you most use as a password: Terry Towelling

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      • #4
        I'm not a fan of chicken pellets myself, in case they come from battery hens. Does it name the source on the labels? I don't buy battery chicken or eggs, so I don't want to support the industry by buying their manure either.

        Chicken pellets are high in nitrogen but not much else (good for leafy plants, but my leafy plants grow fine without 'extra'). And they're on the alkaline side: my soil is already alkaline, I don't want to add more.
        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Angry Janice View Post
          It does, a lot, thank you. I will learn this off by heart. But a bigger all encompassing article or rulebook would be good, because, with chicken manure for example, it has all three in and I read somewhere don't put it on apples, somewhere else they said do add it to apples. I'll print off that link and take it over tomorrow and compare it with the ingerdients in each.
          Something like this?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
            Something like this?
            I don't know about Angry Janice but I know I'll find that VERY helpful, thanks Zaz.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by ginger ninger View Post
              I don't know about Angry Janice but I know I'll find that VERY helpful, thanks Zaz.
              Piskie did all the hard work, I just pointed the finger

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