Brunnings nailed it: gardeners unknowingly starve half their plants—are yours quietly suffering?

June 13, 2025

Why your entire garden needs food – not just your 'pet plants'

Feed your soil like a local pro with this overlooked all-rounder fertiliser

It starts the same way for a lot of gardens: your tomatoes get VIP treatment, your herbs get a regular feed… and everything else just crosses its leafy fingers. But gardens, like people, don’t thrive on favourites. They need fairness—especially in our unpredictable South Aussie soil.

That’s why we always keep a 3kg tub of Brunnings All Purpose NPK Fertiliser within arm’s reach. Because the whole garden deserves the good stuff—not just your show-offs.

From patchy to lush: one weekend, one feed

A regular Saturday garden check revealed my cosmos limp, my lawn flat, pot plants efforting through their day like they hadn’t had a coffee. Nothing looked bad, but everything looked tired.

Sprinkled Brunnings All Purpose across the lot. By Tuesday, those cosmos stood taller. My lawn? Greener. Even the sad geranium by the shed gave a hopeful bloom. This fertiliser delivers a double punch: fast-acting nutrients that kick in right away, and slow-release elements that keep feeding for weeks.

"We tend to overthink things in the garden. Sometimes, the answer is just… feed it,” says local horticulture lead at Strathalbyn H Hardware. “This blend works because it makes it easy. One product. Nearly any plant. Big difference."

So what actually makes this fertiliser worth it?

Big coverage, low effort – Being granular and free-flowing, it spreads like a dream and doesn’t cling to hands or gloves.
Balanced NPK – That’s nitrogen for greenery, phosphorus for roots, potassium for flowers and fruit. Boom, all three.
Fast now, slow later – Tackles urgent nutrient needs while laying long-term foundations.
No hidden nasties – Chloride-free, minimal salt residue, and non-acidifying, so it won’t mess up your soil pH.
Trace elements included – Because your soil doesn’t just need the basics—it needs the extras, too.

Use it on your patio pots, strawberries in hanging baskets, your lemon tree (yes, even the fussy one), the rose you forgot to prune last winter, and the patch of lawn you swore you’d fix come spring (spoiler: it’s spring).

Fertiliser overwhelm? Let’s make it simple

There’s a dizzying amount of garden advice online. Feed this in winter, that on transplant, the other only when the moon’s waxing. But if you’re just trying to nourish your whole garden without a spreadsheet, the Brunnings All Purpose NPK Fertiliser 3kg is that panic-free go-to.

It’s not a specialist. It’s an every-plant booster, curated for broad benefits without confusion. It lets you stop Googling and start sprinkling.

Fertilise your favourites they say.

But if it’s growing, it’s hungry.

Let’s put it plainly. Plants don’t thrive with praise alone. They need nutrients—consistently, and all over. Leaving your garden half-fed is like eating only the icing off a cake and wondering why you’re still hungry. This is the kind of common-sense gardening that wins compliments, not confusion.

At our garden centre, where we test what we sell (and use it in our own backyards), this product earns its spot every time. Because it doesn’t just ‘do the job’—it helps every plant do its job, visibly. And that’s the kind of confidence every gardener deserves.

Catch you in the rows,

– Candeece

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