Hey Lucky,
i have a question for you i seen those Seasol in hosepacks and then the other one you can mix up, are the hosepacks worth there money i am thinking about getting one it may make it easy to put the tomato food and all that in it. if they are strong.
or anyone who use one.
the one that has one of these on it.
veg gardener said:
Hey Lucky,
i have a question for you i seen those Seasol in hosepacks and then the other one you can mix up, are the hosepacks worth there money i am thinking about getting one it may make it easy to put the tomato food and all that in it. if they are strong.
Okay, I wanted the pack one…. so i could mix my own power boosts and clip to the hose.
I’d go the concentrated bottle and mix in a watering can… if you want to save money.
it is obviously more expensive to buy pre-mixed, as opposed to the concentrate, when you compare the cost on equal dilution basis. there’s also the additional cost of special packaging. i think it’s meant more for watering grass and perenials, as i think it may produce a fairly strong (water speed) spray. if you want to give it a go, why not.
Lucky1 said:
veg gardener said:
Hey Lucky,
i have a question for you i seen those Seasol in hosepacks and then the other one you can mix up, are the hosepacks worth there money i am thinking about getting one it may make it easy to put the tomato food and all that in it. if they are strong.
Okay, I wanted the pack one…. so i could mix my own power boosts and clip to the hose.
I’d go the concentrated bottle and mix in a watering can… if you want to save money.
I often use the hose on one as I have a large area and would take me ages to do it with a watering can
‘K., I have extensively used such hose packs.. first buy one hose pack.
Use said hose pack.. make sure it is a fertiliser one for fertilisers .. mix any mixes of fertilisers you like and fill empty hose pack with them… re-use hose pack over and over.
roughbarked said:
‘K., I have extensively used such hose packs.. first buy one hose pack.
Use said hose pack.. make sure it is a fertiliser one for fertilisers .. mix any mixes of fertilisers you like and fill empty hose pack with them… re-use hose pack over and over.
yeah i was thinking i can just reuse i like lucky does.
veg gardener said:
roughbarked said:
‘K., I have extensively used such hose packs.. first buy one hose pack.
Use said hose pack.. make sure it is a fertiliser one for fertilisers .. mix any mixes of fertilisers you like and fill empty hose pack with them… re-use hose pack over and over.
yeah i was thinking i can just reuse i like lucky does.
Its a good way to go VG:)
Long ago .. thought I was clever for inserting one of these into the hose line for the sprinkler system on my nursery.. Made sure I buried it so no one could see in a accessible place where i could monitor and refill it.
Nowadays irrigation farmers everywhere do it.. in a more sophisticated fashion, though my idea was a lot less expensive.
However one must make sure that one puts in a stop backflush method of installation as for instance if while you are using it there is a water supply interruption from broken pipes.., fertilisers may backflush into yours and other people’s domestic supply due to pressure reductions.
I found the bottle emptied very quickly. I might have had the water turned up too high. My tap is a long way from my garden, so you kinda just have to turn it on and hope you got it right.
Still, if you want to cover an area quickly, and you’re planning on re-using the bottle with your own concentrate it’s probably a good deal.
We’re expecting a storm this arvo; but Sunday is my own hose day; so I’ll be out there anyway ‘cause my garden needs a dose of fertiliser on everything. I only have 1/2 an hour of hose time, so putting the bottle on the hose lets me get a bigger area done in the time.
btw even with dilute seasol, one should water the plants well beforehand, to avoid burn on sensitive plants. also it helps to take it down into soil. dry soil will not benefit much from seasol sprayed on top, and quickly drying out thereafter.
aquarium said:
btw even with dilute seasol, one should water the plants well beforehand, to avoid burn on sensitive plants. also it helps to take it down into soil. dry soil will not benefit much from seasol sprayed on top, and quickly drying out thereafter.
But it’s also used as a foliar feed.
that’s true Bubba…..but foliage should be applied very dilute seasol as a fine spray.
all i’m really saying is that if the application is mainly for soil, then the soil should be thoroughly moist beforehand. otherwise it’s pretty much wasted.
soil should be moistened first if that is where you wish to apply.. leaves should also be prepared to accept the fertiliser.
But it’s also used as a foliar feed.
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and a lot of money is wasted if preparations are not up to scratch or the wrong day is chosen.. I had these arguments with my bosses when I started in the commercial horticulture game. Funny thing is .. I’m not employed by them but they are now doing all f what they told me were useless experiments or hippie talk.
that’s the funny bit of human nature. after a conversation about gardening, the organically inclined person is likely to try non-organic seeds, and the conventional gardener is likely to start a worm farm.
happy days.
use it as a foliage spray, nice and easy !! but then if you keep the container you can buy the concentrate and mix up and works out a lot cheaper !
I mentioned dynamic smelly lifter to a friend.. and he said “that smelly stuff..”
I said to him .. water washes all bad smells away. A bag of pelletised manure is easy to convert to liquid manure.. Well any manure is easy to wet.Once watery .. it can be re-diluted several times during application.