do you have to wait a week before planting after using growmore

[tumbling tom]

Have decided today is the day they are going out of the gh.

Its a bit of a whim decision as I just checked what I am upto in the next couple of weeks and it looks like this is my only window.

Most of my aubs/peppers are going to go into pots/containers. These are going to get to get some fresh compost but wanted to ad some chicken pellets and growmore to the compost.

It says on the growmore packet to feed the soil a week before planting anything on it.

Is this just because thats how long the growmore takes to kick in or can it have some ill effects on the plant if you put it in too soon?

Your help is really appreciated as I was going to kick things off in the next hour or so.

[womble]

I've never used growmore, so I do hesitate giving you advice. But in the absence on any other advice, I would say that it's fine to plant out with the growmore.
I suspect that it may be a bit strong if it is touching the plants or roots, or something similar to that, but in my experience that is quite rare that effect, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

[JamesM]

I did it and everything's grown fine

[Kristen]

The advice normally is to spread growmore and work it into the soil a soupke of weeks before planting - using a hoe or similar. Many of the ingredients in the fertilizer don't migrate well through the soil, so this helps to spread them around.

if you just scatter some around the plants, e.g. by applying after planting, then the ingredients may not be well distributed, and may have high concentrations in some areas, which the plants won't be able to take advantage of fully, or may "burn" the plants.

Of course that assumes that you are well enough organised to know that you will be planting something in two weeks time ... I'm not !!

[Two_Sheds]

Chicken pellets are the new black aren't they?

They are very high in nitrogen (good for leafy green crops), but you want high potash for fruiting plants like peppers & aubs