When and with what is fertilization?

Do you need to fertilize a privet hedge?

Privet grows very well on a well-drained, slightly humus-rich soil, even without fertilizer. A light fertilization can only be useful for younger hedges, in which the roots are not yet so pronounced.

Of course, the growth of the bushes can be stimulated by additional fertilization. However, you should not overdo it, because the privet hedge cannot tolerate over-fertilization.

The right fertilizer for privet hedge

• Ripe compost
• Horn shavings
• Mulch cover
• Coniferous fertilizer
• Blue grain or green grain

Even if privet is not a conifer, the shrub will through Coniferous fertilizer well supplied. It is usually called Slow release fertilizer administered once a year.

When is the privet hedge fertilized?

Give long-term fertilizers in the spring just before the Sprout of the privet.

With short-term fertilizers such as blue grain or green grain you have to fertilize twice, exactly according to the plan. Only if the nutrients are delivered in time

root fertilization is successful. You should therefore give short-term fertilizers about 14 days before new growth, i.e. at the end of April and beginning of August.

Compost and Horn shavings(€ 32.93 at Amazon *) are spread in spring and with the Rake carefully worked into the earth.

Mulch cover protects and fertilizes at the same time

You can do without fertilizing completely if you spread a mulch blanket made of grass clippings, leaves, clippings, straw and other garden waste under the privet hedge.

The mulch material decomposes and the nutrients are continuously released into the soil by rain or watering.

At the same time, the mulch cover protects the soil from drying out and keeps the weeds under the hedge away.

Prepare the soil before planting the privet hedge

In depleted soils, you should improve the nutrient supply of the substrate while planting. Mix the potting soil with ripe compost and horn shavings. Then the bushes are adequately supplied for the first few years.