Feeding container shrubs

**Alice** · 29-05-2006, 12:19 PM

Hello Becka, you can feed your tubs with whichever feed you prefer. I use a sprinkling of growmore and water them regularly with phostrogen. And yes do top up the tubs with fresh compost. I find the tubs which do best are the ones where I mixed some manure with the compost (bought in a bag from B&Q) so maybe you could mix some in with your top up compost.

**gcroft** · 29-05-2006, 04:41 PM

chicken pellets

I use chicken pellets around my potted roses and sometimes i pop one or two of those fertiliser ball things in the ones that break down slowly and add a mulch too and they come up trumps every year...

**lyndap** · 30-05-2006, 05:37 PM

I've just been told by an older gardener to chop up a couple of banana skins, and put around stem/trunk of my potted rose bush,which will rot down and feed it, so I'm giving it a go.What with the garlic bulbs, now this it should keep healthy and happy!

**sewer rat** · 30-05-2006, 06:48 PM

I too have heard the banana skin story, though I was told that it was specific in the nutrients it supplied - pottassium being the principle one. However, I have read an article somewhere that the whole banana thing is gardener's folklore and just not true, though I did it last year and it never did any harm - don't know if it did any good but it certainly didn't hurt anyone by trying.

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