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I have this year been swayed to try peat free compost!
I am using B&Q brand. When I opened the pack I thought the compost was rather coarse with some quite hard pieces throughout.
In practice I am disappointed with the results so far, about 75% of seed has failed to germinate and my Courgette plants have not grown on as I would have expected, being slow with some leaf dieback. I think I will need to plant another batch of courgettes in different compost.
I planted out my Tomatoes plants a few days ago in a mixture of peat free and peat compost plus a good helping of horse manure, so far they have not been checked and seem to be ok.
My chitted Charlotte potatoes [in containers]are also doing ok on a mixture of peat free and horse manure, there are about three leaves showing so I should be topping up the levels in the bags after the weekend. My Pentland Javelins have not shown through yet so the jury is still out on this one.
I am growing a variety of lettuce and leaves equally in peat free or peat filled troughs and both seem to be doing well.
I plant the sieve some of the compost to see if there is a difference in the germination of a few selected seeds
Conclusions! A little disappointing in one way but still encouraging in others.
Has anybody else any idea or comments on this subject especially as it has been aired in the GYO Mag� several times now
I am using B&Q brand. When I opened the pack I thought the compost was rather coarse with some quite hard pieces throughout.
In practice I am disappointed with the results so far, about 75% of seed has failed to germinate and my Courgette plants have not grown on as I would have expected, being slow with some leaf dieback. I think I will need to plant another batch of courgettes in different compost.
I planted out my Tomatoes plants a few days ago in a mixture of peat free and peat compost plus a good helping of horse manure, so far they have not been checked and seem to be ok.
My chitted Charlotte potatoes [in containers]are also doing ok on a mixture of peat free and horse manure, there are about three leaves showing so I should be topping up the levels in the bags after the weekend. My Pentland Javelins have not shown through yet so the jury is still out on this one.
I am growing a variety of lettuce and leaves equally in peat free or peat filled troughs and both seem to be doing well.
I plant the sieve some of the compost to see if there is a difference in the germination of a few selected seeds
Conclusions! A little disappointing in one way but still encouraging in others.
Has anybody else any idea or comments on this subject especially as it has been aired in the GYO Mag� several times now
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