Growmore

[lainey lou]

Hello all
I have inherited about 1/2 a bin bag of growmore which is currently stuck together in lumps! It's ancient but hopefully still worth using on the plot.
Not really sure what to be doing with it but obviously want to put it to best possible use, any ideas out there?
Thanks in anticipation!

[moggssue]

I don't know whether it would go off Lainey, but I certainly use Growmore allll over the garden. In spring I find it a good general food to get everything going, flowers seem to love it, and whenever I plant anything new (flower or bush) I always throw some in the bottom of the hole. I scattered it around my new veg plot in the spring as well and it certainly didnt do any harm. It's basically blood, fish and bone, but a more propriatery version (unless someone more knowledgeable on here knows better>!)

[NOG]

Hello all
I have inherited about 1/2 a bin bag of growmore which is currently stuck together in lumps! any ideas out there?

Get two spades and do what granny used to do with pills and grind it to powder. Or disolve it in water and use it that way.

[Alice]

I'd go with NOG on this Lainey Lou. As he says, if all else fails dissolve the lumps in water and water it on.

[bubblewrap]

I put my broad beans out a couple of weeks ago and put a little Growmore under each plant.

[pigletwillie]

I would be more inclined to use it come the spring.

If we get heavy rain it will be just washed away and if you use it on plants, it will just encourage soft sappy growth that is easily damaged by frost, pest or disease.

In early spring, the plants will start to romp away and will really benefit from the nutrient boost then.

[lainey lou]

Thanks everyone for all your great advice (wouldn't expect anything less!)
Looks like the first job then is to grind it up into some sort of usefull consistancy!

[terrier]

I bet if you tipped it out on a flagged path and went over it with the garden roller that would sort it For smaller amounts, bury a lump in the ground and borrow one of our terriers to dig it up, it will be spread all over your garden in minutes

[Snadger]

If it's in a bin bag, how do you know its growmore? Unless it's in the original bag? All pelleted (prilled)fertiliser looks like growmore but it could be High Nitro, High Pottasium or even High Phosphate?
Growmore is a balanced fertiliser with equal amounts of NPK.(7-7-7)

[lainey lou]

Hi Snadger,
I was told it's growmore, it's been in an elderly neighbours shed for at least 10 years (since her husband died). Will it make much of a difference if it's something else? (chemistry's not my strong point!) What would you advice?