In article , Bob Hobden
writes
Composts which at the moment are worse than useless IME. How good for
the planet is me planting all my veg seeds, only a few weeks later to
throw it all away and start again with new seed and new compost. Zero
germination or very weak plants is all I got.
The expensive bag I bought looked more like mushroom compost after a
short while, clumps of fungus in the compost, it obviously hadn't be
sterilised which with such rubbish ingredients is a must. Which also
means more resources needed for that process.


Yes i have to say peat free compost has some way to go before it induces
me to spend time potting up and /or planting only to risk finding
disappointing results
best stuff i ever had for potting up small cuttings of shrubs however
was a bale of coir |i got from some freeby thing. The coir was in a
block and grew to enormous size when water was added. The resultant
fibrous material make the small cuttings romp away for some reason,
maybe it was easier for them to develop roots? Anyway it was my best
result ever. Of course I then had to pt them up into ordinary compost as
they grew too big for their pots!
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk