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Coir block suppliers?
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Not having much joy with Google finding suppliers of coir blocks - B&Q did them last year but don't think they're going to any more. Got one place (Fertile Fibre) but would like to try a few. Any ideas? Planning on using coir rather than B&Q peat-free cos had a lot of problems with poor growth and fungus gnats last year... Michael |
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"Michael Savage" wrote in message ... Hi Not having much joy with Google finding suppliers of coir blocks - B&Q did them last year but don't think they're going to any more. Got one place (Fertile Fibre) but would like to try a few. Any ideas? Planning on using coir rather than B&Q peat-free cos had a lot of problems with poor growth and fungus gnats last year... I tried reduced-peat compost last season, and am unhappy about the amount of thick white mould which is growing on the surface of all the pots in which I used it. What is the status of good old-fashioned John Innes no1 and no 2 nowadays? Franz |
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On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:21:16 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote: "Michael Savage" wrote in message ... Hi Not having much joy with Google finding suppliers of coir blocks - B&Q did them last year but don't think they're going to any more. Got one place (Fertile Fibre) but would like to try a few. Any ideas? Planning on using coir rather than B&Q peat-free cos had a lot of problems with poor growth and fungus gnats last year... I tried reduced-peat compost last season, and am unhappy about the amount of thick white mould which is growing on the surface of all the pots in which I used it. What is the status of good old-fashioned John Innes no1 and no 2 nowadays? Franz When you find somewhere please post the address to the group, tried to order them in bulk from a website but you had to order by phone and no one was answering no matter what time of day I rang. Ford. |
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"Ford Prefect" wrote in message
news On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:21:16 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "Michael Savage" wrote in message ... Hi Not having much joy with Google finding suppliers of coir blocks - B&Q did them last year but don't think they're going to any more. Got one place (Fertile Fibre) but would like to try a few. Any ideas? Planning on using coir rather than B&Q peat-free cos had a lot of problems with poor growth and fungus gnats last year... I tried reduced-peat compost last season, and am unhappy about the amount of thick white mould which is growing on the surface of all the pots in which I used it. What is the status of good old-fashioned John Innes no1 and no 2 nowadays? Franz When you find somewhere please post the address to the group, tried to order them in bulk from a website but you had to order by phone and no one was answering no matter what time of day I rang. Ford. Spoke to Fertile Fibre yesterday - very helpful, I'm going to see if we need any coir for work (I'm in a Northern Ireland parks dept) and see if we can do business. If FF were the site you were trying, they are moving premises so that might explain no answer. Anyway, will post progress. Michael |
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On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 22:49:38 -0000, "Michael Savage"
wrote: "Ford Prefect" wrote in message news On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:21:16 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "Michael Savage" wrote in message ... Hi Not having much joy with Google finding suppliers of coir blocks - B&Q did them last year but don't think they're going to any more. Got one place (Fertile Fibre) but would like to try a few. Any ideas? Planning on using coir rather than B&Q peat-free cos had a lot of problems with poor growth and fungus gnats last year... I tried reduced-peat compost last season, and am unhappy about the amount of thick white mould which is growing on the surface of all the pots in which I used it. What is the status of good old-fashioned John Innes no1 and no 2 nowadays? Franz When you find somewhere please post the address to the group, tried to order them in bulk from a website but you had to order by phone and no one was answering no matter what time of day I rang. Ford. Spoke to Fertile Fibre yesterday - very helpful, I'm going to see if we need any coir for work (I'm in a Northern Ireland parks dept) and see if we can do business. If FF were the site you were trying, they are moving premises so that might explain no answer. Anyway, will post progress. Michael Cheers Michael. Ford. |
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When you find somewhere please post the address to the group, tried to order them in bulk from a website but you had to order by phone and no one was answering no matter what time of day I rang. Ford. Spoke to Fertile Fibre yesterday - very helpful, I'm going to see if we need any coir for work (I'm in a Northern Ireland parks dept) and see if we can do business. If FF were the site you were trying, they are moving premises so that might explain no answer. Anyway, will post progress. Michael Cheers Michael. Ford. Hi all I've spoken again to Fertile Fibre and although we aren't going to be buying anything for work yet (need to do some work on our Nursery systems first!) the guy I spoke to, Matthew, is going to price up delivery to Northern Ireland of smaller quantity for garden use so hopefully I'm sorted. They've just moved so phone number is 01432 853111 and url http://www.fertilefibre.co.uk/ Matthew said google seems to not pick them up with high relevance... I'd recommend on experience so far. Michael |
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On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 09:44:23 -0000, "Michael Savage"
wrote: (snip) When you find somewhere please post the address to the group, tried to order them in bulk from a website but you had to order by phone and no one was answering no matter what time of day I rang. Ford. Spoke to Fertile Fibre yesterday - very helpful, I'm going to see if we need any coir for work (I'm in a Northern Ireland parks dept) and see if we can do business. If FF were the site you were trying, they are moving premises so that might explain no answer. Anyway, will post progress. Michael Cheers Michael. Ford. Hi all I've spoken again to Fertile Fibre and although we aren't going to be buying anything for work yet (need to do some work on our Nursery systems first!) the guy I spoke to, Matthew, is going to price up delivery to Northern Ireland of smaller quantity for garden use so hopefully I'm sorted. They've just moved so phone number is 01432 853111 and url http://www.fertilefibre.co.uk/ Matthew said google seems to not pick them up with high relevance... I'd recommend on experience so far. Michael Cheers for that Mike, I'll probably wait now 'till after christmas to contact them but I'll probably order from them, my roaches and snails seem to love the stuff for substrate and to nibble on and peat is getting expensive. Ford. |
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greenandgreen wrote:
hi visit http://www.greeneem.com they are India's largest producers and exporters of CoCo Coir Peat [...] This brings out my tree-hugging tendency. I know India and Sri Lanka are grownups and can make up their own minds, and I know there are absolute mountains of coir lying about going begging; but I can't escape the feeling that it's short-termism for a country to export its plant waste in any significant quantity. No, of course it isn't like peat-bogs; but I do wonder. Musing further, there are arid lands in India and elsewhere which could use the stuff better than we can: maybe we should set up a Compost-Aid programme -- it could be fronted by some pop star whose work is known to be appropriately shitty. -- Mike. |
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