Paul Luton wrote:
On 23/03/2010 20:02, Mike Lyle wrote:
sutartsorric wrote:
On 20 Mar, 17:42,
wrote:
Sometime ago I posted regarding newer composts being rather weedy
and suggested that coincil green waste could well be mixed in with
compost. Here is a website which shows what happens to our garden
recycled waste picked up by local authorities,

http://www.hollybush-garden.com/spec...ers/index.html

regards
Cineman

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My wife accidentally used some of this (not that particular brand)
to pot up some tomato plants a couple of years ago. The plants did
grow, but extremely slowly and remained very sickly looking. I dont
know what the compost contains, but beware how you use it.

My beef with peat-free growing bags (growbags are my cheap source of
potting material) is that the stuff always seems to be very coarse: I
don't think they compost it for long enough. That might slow down the
root development of your transplants if they're still quite small.


I have just had some petunia seed come up fine on New Horizon growbag
compost.

I don't doubt it; but the kind I use (most years, from B&Q growing
bags), though it works, is palpably less than ideal. I consider that a
trifling penalty for lessening the assault on peat bogs, and for
encouraging commercial composting; but our enquirer seems to have been
unlucky.

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Mike.