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for an indulgent autumn, provided I can keep birds and wasps away.Just one more job for the week ahead: sprinkle sulphate of potash fertiliser over the soil around my fruit trees and bushes. Potash is the nutrient plants need to encourage good flowering

to feed raspberries. You can apply sulphate of potash in powdered form (35g or 7 teaspoons per square metre) to the soil at the start of the month, then a couple of weeks later add a covering of well-rotted manure or home-made compost. This helps to keep

of the soil so i just dug it in our raised veg beds hope iv doneright lot of luck Alan Hello' The rain depleting ash goodness is that  when a down pour washes the surface away? Do green mauure crops reduce surface erosion? Ash acidity is certain in sulphate

-S Hi Percy-Grower.   I always prune mine the last two weeks in February, if at all possible, then give them a feed of sulphate of potash. I find that this works for me. All my clematis are in the ground so I give them a mulch in the autumn and if you

shoots 10cm high, apply sulphate of potash at 100g per square metre.March: Continue weeding and hoeing but take care not to damage bulbs. Planting may continue though bulbs will be smaller.April: Keep up regular watering in dry weather. Use a fungicide

importantly, what should I feed to encourage growth? I feed mine with a high nitrogen fertilizer in the summer to encourage leaf growth - I use sulphate of ammonia sprinkled round the plants at the rate stated on the packet and forked into the surface. I would

declined in many areas.As always in gardening, there's always next year, so I'm hoping for a better crop, like you. The one thing I'd recommend is sprinkling some sulphate of potash plant feed round the base of all fruit trees and bushes in Feb

this Spring (sulphate of Potash) I was wondering whether it might be because I leave it out all winter. Figs in containers need some sort of protection in cold winters. The danger is that the roots can freeze in the container. Did it have any protection? How