Peat free seed sowing compost?

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• AnniD Posts: 12,585

  April 2019

  If push came to shove, you could use peat free compost and add vermiculite to improve the drainage l suppose. 

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• Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

  April 2019

  I've been sowing seeds for almost 50 years and I've never ever  used "seed" compost.

  Devon.

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• AnniD Posts: 12,585

  April 2019

  I've tried it, but just couldn't get on with it. I use multi purpose compost with the aforementioned vermiculite.

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• josusa47 Posts: 3,530

  April 2019

  I have always used coir, works for me.  I don't have a car in which to collect sackloads of anything from GCs, so it's largely a matter of convenience.  The bricks take up so little space in storage,  can be prepared whenever you want them, are clean to handle, and there are no weedlings to confuse you. I usually buy them from the Organic Gardening Catalogue, they sell nutrient granules specially formulated for use with coir.  I also add two handfuls of seaweed meal per brick which is supposed to aid water retention, but I have never subjected that to a randomised controlled trial!
  
  If you want to make your own peat-based mix, the OGC also sells bog-friendly peat, which is recovered from reservoirs.

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• Fishy65 Posts: 2,276

  April 2019

  QD sell a peat free compost called 'Growing Patch MPC'. It has a nice friable texture, bought two bags today.

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