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Homemade Australian Native Plant Fertiliser
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Posted by almafudd (My Page) on Tue, Jan 17, 06 at 20:47
Hi all
I was wondering if anyone new of a good general purpose Homemade Australian Native Plant Fertiliser.
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RE: Homemade Australian Native Plant Fertiliser
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- Posted by pos02 NSW Aust (My Page) on
Wed, Jan 18, 06 at 16:30
| I would have thought that a homemade native fertiliser would merely be leaf litter left to decay. This would mimick the bush. Not sure if you wanted to add other chemicals or not. |
RE: Homemade Australian Native Plant Fertiliser
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| well you could consider compost a homemade native fertiliser. I have some natives which have done very well on my compost alone, and my guess is that a lot of natives are used to such poor soil that a dressing of compost is like a dream come true to them :) |
RE: Homemade Australian Native Plant Fertiliser
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| I agree with tranegemini. Compost is great, as is the occassional application of Seasol on the leaves and for the roots. We been using that combination for our grevillias and golden penda and they seem to be loving it (and growing much quicker than we expected). While Seasol isn't homemade, we've often made our own home-made seaweed fertilizer which has done just as well. You're not legally allowed to remove seaweed from most beaches, however we've taken some overgrowing pond plants and algae and diluted them (once they've broken down) in some water and applied that just like we would with Seasol and it seems to have worked pretty well. But personally, I think you can't go wrong with compost for almost any plant. Cheers, Lauren :) |
RE: Homemade Australian Native Plant Fertiliser
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| Greetings- Do you think your seaweed recipe would work for a variety of Proteaceous plant grown in large tubs? I have no access to the "Australian Native Fertilizers" & am having a H**L of a time keeping these beauties fed. Any thoughts? |
RE: Homemade Australian Native Plant Fertiliser
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| seaweed is not really a fertilizer. fish emulsion is probably a good choice though. |
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