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? And if it is a sign of a weakened plant - wondering if compost/feed might help too -    You can certainly try feeding, but it does depend on the plant having enough roots to take up the food. Thank you  - I'm now thinking of nitrogen depletion and rotting wood

colonies are the main means by which nitrogen is fixed, and made available to other animals and plants. In Britain, some butterflies have symbotic relationships with ants. The butterflies need the ants to tend their lavae...     For the lawn I use Antstop

window... they were quite disappointed to learn that it is only for a couple of tomatoes and salads that my window glows like a supernova. .   Here's something I got fro googling excess nitrogen in potting soil (rather than potting compost) as that's what

fertiliser. Not sure about shallow soil if it's on tarmac. What's the drainage like? If you are growing vegetables on the deeper soil you could grow potatoes ( always recommended by the ol' boys for a first crop). Also peas/beans since they fix nitrogen

early to know how much flower I shall have. I shall leave them in and plant my runner beans over them in the summer. The feed for the beans, and the nitrogen fixed by the beans may help for the 3rd year. Here's hoping... noithing ventured...

%, nitrogen 12% Also contains ferrous sulphate for moss Verdun, no, I don't think we could store that much soil - I'll be taking a couple of inches off with the grass. I'm gutted - we've got so much to plant!   Six weeks should be fine, I reckon. I know you

created huge sterile areas that require considerable new materials if to be converted back to a productive soil and thus subsequently leads to another problem in the UK which is an overuse of nitrogen in urban - peri urban areas. As the rest of the world

before I can get going? You can't plant much right now. I'd sow seeds of a green manure, such as red clover, now, which will stop the nutrients leaching from the soil and add plenty of nitrogen, phosphates and potassium too (essential for healthy plant

on good growth before winter. Clematis are hungry plants so twice a year is probably about right. I'm not sure if I do it correctly, but I do know you shouldn't use a high nitrogen feed during budding or flowering because it lessens the blooms

to mature to a fruiting stage but your three or four years should have been adequate. Assuming plenty of sun and warmth in summer, has it been fertilised? Nitrogen-heavy fertiliser can work against fruit production. I'm also planning to plant a fig tree