Specifications
Height
11.6 cm
Length
66.6 cm
Width
38.4 cm
Weight
21.84 kg
Colour
Green
Crop
For fruit vegetables, flowers and roses. Vitax also recommend it for growing media or compost base.
Application Rate
Growing media 1.5 to 5.5 kg /m3 with sufficient lime. Roses 140 g/m2 prior to planting or established bushes as a top dressing in the spring. Flowers and vegetables use 140 g/m2 before sowing and planting. Top dress vegetables at 70g/m2 once or twice in the growing season. Fruit (apples pears plums 175 g/m2). currants, gooseberries, raspberries: 140g/m2, strawberries 70-100 g/m2. Tomatoes and chrysanthemums 200g/m2 before planting and 35g/m2 as a regular feed at 3-4 week intervals.
Analysis
5.3-7.5-10+3MgO + TE
About
One of the UK's leading extended release, general purpose fertilisers, Q4 is suitable for use on a wide range of crops. It contains all the vital plant nutrients and trace elements essential for vigorous growth, abundant flowering and ripening of fruit.
Established as a firm favourite with more than two generations of growers, it is an extremely versatile fertiliser suitable for use on a wide range of crops including carnations, cut flowers, chrysanthemums (winter crops), roses (after heading back), peppers and lettuce (October - March plants)
Q4 is also used as a base fertiliser for both loam-based and soil-less composts, subject to separate ph correction if required.