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Old 13-04-2012, 01:51 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Tomatoes and sowing compost

Two things:

I set out looking for seed sowing compost at the sheds, and the best they
did was a JI No. 1 which seems to be for cuttings, or a very small bag of
compost for seeds but nothing in bulk.

So I took the pragmatic decision to use GroBag compost.

Most stuff so far seems to be germinating, but not the tomatoes.

So is it necessary to have a particularly fine compost for tomato seeds, or
am I just unlucky with my seeds - T&M Ildi and Mr. Fothergill's Principe
Borghese?

Is there anywhere (national chain) which sells seed compost?
Or is JI No. 1 adequate?

I can't remeber having these problems in the past, but it is a good few
years since I grew tomatoes from seed.

Cheers

Dave R

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