{"id":145071,"date":"2024-06-14T17:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/its-feeding-time-why-plants-need-more-than-sunlight-and-water-to-thrive\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T17:18:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T10:18:50","slug":"its-feeding-time-why-plants-need-more-than-sunlight-and-water-to-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/its-feeding-time-why-plants-need-more-than-sunlight-and-water-to-thrive\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s feeding time: why plants need more than sunlight and water to thrive"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWith warmer weather comes an explosion of growth \u2013 so make sure your plants get the ingredients they need to sustain itOne of my earliest gardening memories is of tomato feed: the dark brown potion that left a\u00a0sticky residue, the ritual of pouring it into the watering can and diluting it like squash. Most of all, it\u2019s an olfactory memory: there\u2019s something Proustian about tomato feed, of hot greenhouse stuffiness and being small. It\u2019s one of the key smells of summer for me.This is partially down to my grandad, who was a Percy Thrower type, growing tomatoes in his greenhouse and trails of sweet peas for\u00a0my grandmother. Photographic evidence attests that he merrily let my siblings and me run around with beanpoles without a care in the world. But it\u2019s also because even fair-weather gardeners, like my mother was when we were children, can be persuaded to feed plants in the warmer months. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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