This is the exact same argument I have when my dad sees a luxury pie slice for £4 in the shops and I go “I’m not paying that for a pie slice”.
I don’t think people are questioning the effectiveness of your method but it is £6 per 50kg for gravel or £6 for 100l of Wilco’s compost, and free if you have access to manure or your own compost heap. If you have a lot of soil to improve then at £20 a bag you are going to hit the price point where it’s simply cheaper and less effort to get new top soil and a skip.
Hiring skips and carting stuff to them is both expensive and labour intensive, the worst of all possible worlds. I can carry a 100L bag of vermiculite in one hand.
Sorry, but people ARE questioning the effectiveness, saying that muck and grit is the ONLY way. If the old ways are the only ways, then discussion ends and forums die
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Posy and Hosta are right, compost / manure is the only answer.
Vermiculite for borders?, very expensive and of dubious benefit IMO.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Lots of plants will love that boggy ground. Marsh Marigold, Purple Loosestrife, Meadowsweet, Hemp Agrimony and Lady's Smock to name just a few
£18 per 100 litres, and a little goes a long, long way. For me, the benefits are considerable. FWIW
This is the exact same argument I have when my dad sees a luxury pie slice for £4 in the shops and I go “I’m not paying that for a pie slice”.
I don’t think people are questioning the effectiveness of your method but it is £6 per 50kg for gravel or £6 for 100l of Wilco’s compost, and free if you have access to manure or your own compost heap. If you have a lot of soil to improve then at £20 a bag you are going to hit the price point where it’s simply cheaper and less effort to get new top soil and a skip.
Hiring skips and carting stuff to them is both expensive and labour intensive, the worst of all possible worlds. I can carry a 100L bag of vermiculite in one hand.
Sorry, but people ARE questioning the effectiveness, saying that muck and grit is the ONLY way. If the old ways are the only ways, then discussion ends and forums die
I've not read anyone saying their way " is the only way " merely their preferred way.
Maybe I've missed someone saying " vermiculite doesn't work " have I?
You have missed something
Punkdoc says
Posy and Hosta are right, compost / manure is the only answer.
Vermiculite for borders?, very expensive and of dubious benefit IMO.
Mind closed by the sound of it
I see no point in commenting further on this thread, so I'm bowing out.
polb...Lobelia cardinalis likes boggy soil, no fragrance but lovely colour and late flowers. Easy to grow from seed.
Daisy - I adore Lobelia Cardinalis but can't grow any because slugs and snails destroy it. Any tips other than pellets?