Fish Blood and Bone

[citizentwiglet]

For example....

Probably a stooooopid question, but when I am out looking for an organic plant food, why is it that the instructions are always written in gobbledeegook? It's always 'mix X amount per sq metre', when I only have a couple of bloody tubs. I never was any good at sums. The 'mix one capful into 4.5l of water' I can just about manage, under supervision, but that's only any good for liquid feeds, and I can't find a liquid, organic feed in the shops (and I don't have a lidded bucket yet to brew anything ghastly).

Is there are very easy method of scaling down these measurements? Preferably something along the lines of 'scatter a bit of this stuff merrily on your pots'? Or does anyone have any ideas for a water-soluble feed for potatoes grown in sacks (First Earlies)?

Muchly thanking you on the behalf of the most wonderous nation of My Back Yard. xx

[Green Aura]

bloody hell ct, are you supposed to follow the instructions I don't think I've ever even read them.

I vaguely recall Geoff Hamilton saying something like a handful of BF+B to a trugful of compost - how big's the trug?

I just scatter by the handful - doesn't a lot of it get washed down when you water anyway. As long as you don't go overboard I'm not sure it matters that much.

[citizentwiglet]

Now that, Maggie, was EXACTLY the sort of answer I was looking for! Thank you!

[thesunflowergal]

Or if your my hubby a bl****y great big handful

[Keaniebean]

Instructions... what are they. Handfulls I can work in.

[WhiteWolf]

I work with "Bl***y big hand fulls " too

Tis the only way

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