I usually use Miracle-Gro for my basic garden plant food (and a Tomorite
look-alike for the tomatoes and cucumbers in the greenhouse).

I am growing some garlic this year, and I had read here a recommendation to
someone who had asked about garlic, to use seaweed extract. So I have done so.

The garlic is doing really well - so it looks like it likes seaweed.

I bought a teasel in autumn and put it in the garden: I have been feeding it
also with the seaweed extract (for no good reason other than it is next to the
garlic). It is doing fantastically well - a very healthy plant about 5ft high
now, with what looks like about 15 "heads" growing on it. So it looks like
teasels like seaweed.


I am also growing a couple of rows of runner beans which I was a bit late
putting out in to the garden. As the garlic and teasel had done so well I
thought I would try an experiment.

One row of beans I fed with Miracle-gro as usual. The other row with the
seaweed. What a difference between the two rows!! The seaweed row beans had
quite light green leaves and were not growing as quickly as the miracle-gro row
which was really growing well and has lovely, healthy looking leaves on it.

I have now dropped the seaweed and moved to miracle-gro for all beans. The
seaweed row has really recovered and the leaves have changed colour and the
plants look very well.




I knew that different plants liked, or even needed, different chemicals to
promote growth etc - but this was the first time I had experienced the
differences.


Finally a question : do people feed their young flowers (grown from seed) in
the greenhouse until they are ready to plant out?