{"id":18420,"date":"2017-06-05T19:36:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T18:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18420"},"modified":"2017-06-05T19:36:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T18:36:18","slug":"trace-elements-and-garden-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/trace-elements-and-garden-chemicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Trace Elements and Garden Chemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18423\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/creskeld-058-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/creskeld-058-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/creskeld-058-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The main trace elements and micronutrients are molybdenum, manganese, zinc, iron, boron and copper plus calcium for tomatoes. These elements are best provided as water-soluble chelate salts rather than granules.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00c2\u00a0Interesting Facts about Seaweed<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In addition to the trace elements there are another 60 or so chemicals in seaweed.<\/li>\n<li>Seaweed extract is a concentrated elixir to use as a foliar feed or root stimulant.<\/li>\n<li>Seaweed is a organic fertiliser containing bio stimulants and iodine<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"_Tgc _y9e\">Over time seaweed acidifies and slowly adds iron to the soil.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"_Tgc _y9e\">S<\/span>eaweed in is already added to Doff tomato feed<\/li>\n<li>Gardeners near the coast have used seaweed as a soil improver for centuries.<\/li>\n<li>Seaweed contains plant hormones called cytokinins,\u00c2\u00a0mannitol and auxins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Turning Flowers Blue<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The litmus test for plant colourants is generally can they turn flowers from pink or red to a pleasing blue.<\/li>\n<li>Hydrangea plants will be blue in acidic soil and pink or red in neutral or alkaline soil.<\/li>\n<li>Colourant with aluminium and iron salts turns pale pink florets pale blue and red flowers purplish.<\/li>\n<li>Soil acidifiers help make micronutients available<\/li>\n<li>Fertilizers containing phosphate salts that typically convert\u00c2\u00a0 metal ions into insoluble solids\u00c2\u00a0 are of no nutritional value to the plants. A chelating agent that keeps these metal ions in a soluble form.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other Garden Chemicals<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Lime is used to increase the ph in the soil to help vegetable crops.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"st\">Sequestrine plant tonic is a soluble tonic for acid-loving ericaceous plants<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Baby bio indoor fertiliser liquid has an organic content including\u00c2\u00a0 uric nitrogen.<\/li>\n<li>Growth and root promoting hormones are now far more frequently found in a gardeners dispensary.<\/li>\n<li>Bio- stimulants and flowering enhancers are used in commercial nurseries for plants sold through garden centers and supermarkets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main trace elements and micronutrients are molybdenum, manganese, zinc, iron, boron and copper plus calcium for tomatoes. These elements are best provided as water-soluble chelate salts rather than granules. \u00c2\u00a0Interesting Facts about Seaweed In addition to the trace elements there are another 60 or so chemicals in seaweed. Seaweed extract is a concentrated elixir to use as a foliar feed or root stimulant. Seaweed is a organic fertiliser containing bio stimulants and iodine Over time seaweed acidifies and slowly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/trace-elements-and-garden-chemicals\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}