plant food v fertilizer

[mamacoffee]

What's the difference??

Thanks.

Do you think the lack of responses means nobody knows?! I am deliberating whether to plant up my sweet peas with compost & plant food, or drag the DC down the garden centre to get some blood fish & bone.

There is no difference!

So is plant food the new name for fertilizer since organic gardening kicked off? Ie is it just cos it sounds better??

At a guess . . . I'd say plant food is a general fertilizer for non-gardeners, and fertilizers are a range of different products, for specific purposes, for gardeners who know what they're doing

well if thats true then i'm sticking to plant food because i certainly don't know what i'm doing

What's the difference? That was my reaction on reading your title. I suspect "Plant food" is designed to appeal to novice gardeners who marketers believe don't necessarily understand "fertiliser". Or maybe it's for clarification - fertilising means the act of introducing male and female gametes to each other produce new animal or plant. So probably a good idea not to also use it for supplying nutrients to plants.

I think that fertiliser is generally a petroleum based product.

Whereas Plant Food is possibly a nettle or comfrey liquid that is diluted with water for spraying on plants, a naturally produced product, for most plants Also it can be made a more acidic mixture specifically, for tomatoes and or roses.

ppeatfruit I think that's what they'd like you to think. Miracle-Gro is a synthetic fertiliser which calls itself a Plant Food. Googling "plant food" gives quite a range of products calling themselves "plant food" and they're definitely not all made out of nettle of comfrey.

Yes, that's why I make my own! Mere