Handy hints for growing perfect vegtables
- Practice a three-year rotation of crops to achieve bumper yields, avoid a build-up of root pests and diseases and make full use of manures and fertilisers.
- Sow seeds in spring when soil temperature is above 10°C (50°F) and you can rake it to a crumbly tilth.
- Work in Proctors Growmore and Blood, Fish & Bone fertiliser before sowing or planting to speed up growth and encourage weighty and early yields.
- Shield early sowings from cold winds, heavy rain and pests by covering them with plastic tunnel cloches or polypropylene film.
- Work in soil insecticide before sowing if wireworms, milipedes and other soil pests are a problem.
- Thin lettuce, spinach and seakale beet seedings early, and at intervals, before they jostle for space and grow weak and leggy.
- Enrich the soil with Proctors Garden and Potato fertiliser where root crops are to be grown.
- Hoe regularly to behead seedling weeds before they emerge
- Water freely in dry weather to encourage robust growth, and conserve soil moisture by spreading black plastic or 3" of garden compost or old manure between rows.
- Harvest crops at their prime;
- Peas and beans when pods are full but seeds bulge through.
- Sweetcorn when kernels are filled with think creamy juce.
- Beetroot before they are cricket ball sized.
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Blood Fish & Bone 5kg Tub
This organic based powder fertiliser, is an excellent alternative to Growmore.
£14.04 incl VAT
Calcified Seaweed 1000kg (40x25kg Bags)
The cycle created by this organic fertiliser is a significant reason for its importance.
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John Innes Base 20kg Bag
This specialist fertiliser was developed by the John Innes Institute as a balanced fertiliser base for soil based composts.
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Lawn Feed, Weed & Moss Killer 2000 20kg Bag
A cost effective micro-granular fertiliser for control of moss and weeds, including broadleaved weed species, while feeding grass for a lush green lawn.
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This specifically formulated organic based fertiliser is for use on Pony grazing paddocks.
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Poultry Pellets 1 tonne bag
A 1 tonne bag of UK produced poultry pellets. Ideal for adding nutrients and organic matter to improve plant growth and soil structure, releasing their nutrients slowly and breaking down naturally to improve the fertility
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Rose Food 20kg Bag
Well cared for roses will need regular feeding, especially at the beginning of the growing season.
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SG4 Spring & Summer Outfield 9-7-7 500kg (25x20kg Bags)
A granular compound recommended for fairways, outfields and football pitches where good top growth is desirable.
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Soil Testing Service
Instructions on how to take your soil test, sample bag, and pre-paid envelope to send sample direct to independent lab. Test is for Phosphate, Potash, Magnesium and pH.
Results and recommendations are then sent via email.
£32.00 incl VAT
Spring & Summer Lawn Feed 1000kg (50x20kg Bags)
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Spring & Summer Lawn Feed 20kg Bag
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For spring and summer use on outfield areas.
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