Hello everyone lets talk crap.....

In the UK I used chicken pellets for fertililser in the garden and got great results, especially on the legumes / cucumbers / courgettes / soft fruits.

Over here I can't seem to find anything similar, been to all the major DIY places and they just have liquid addative, thats not really slow release.

Can it be got?

What's is called?

Is it a daft price?

Anyone ever bought any in the Alicante area?


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Anyone expat in Spain who used to be in the army was SAS.
I have been using my pool since April the 1st until Oct the 31st.
Spanish houses are built for the hot weather.
My last flight to the UK only cost 20eu, ...... return.

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Back to fertilisers.

I see the fertiliser thing as two streams. the slow release 15;15:15 or similar chemicals which are relatively cheap if you can get them from an olive co op. I have seen the same bags in garden centres for 15 euros. I haven't seen the chicken pellets here but used them in the UK

The second stream is organic material e.g. peat, goat muck, rotted stable manure.You should be able to hook up with someone local for that

I use two methods.

First I have horse manure collected by the sack from a local farm, that's placed around the base of my trees.

Secondly I also use the manure along with any goat pellets collected from the fields around us. Both of these are dropped into 45 litre plastic barrels, these have taps at the base and securely fitting lids. Then they are filled with water and allowed to stand. The fluid is drained off into a watering can and used as liquid feed. As I take fluid out I top up with water. This fluid is used on my flowers, we don't as yet have any veg planted but it works as well on those, this is a good old method that I remember seeing widely used in my childhood on allotments.

we have stables down the road about 200m from the house. Always spotless though and never see any poop hanging about so dunno where they store it. Using frsh will be too strong for veg needs to rot for a year before use.

Heard of the "poop" bomb method, used it before, I need a slow release fertiliser i can put in the ground for feeding chillies in 2 months time, will widen the search to the co-operative shops in the area.....

Thanks all see if I can find a 15 - 15 - 15 mix

Senor Chilli

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Obviously he was responding to your title

Talking Crap

The beauty of buying muck is that it'll vastly improve the soil. Buying propriety fertiliser pellets won't do that; they'll simply make things grow, which might be all you want of course!!
A 15-15-15 fertiliser means there's an equal amount of NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphate, Potassium, always in that order. ) Putting Nitrogen on in winter when there's a lot of rain is a waste of money as it'll be 'leached' (lost downwards through the soil).
I bought a trailer load of well rotted manure from a local chap here in the Basque country for €50, enough to last 4 years.
I'd certainly enquire in a local " agri co-operative" . Anything in a garden centre will cost more usually.