I’ve had excellent results using peat free over the last couple of years. I hope my gardening helps nature and it just started to feel weird to be helping to destroy it somewhere else. I’m also relatively new to gardening compared to many here so haven’t had the negative experiences some seem to have had in the past. If anyone is reading this thread and thinking about trying peat free I’d really encourage you to have a go for yourself.
I’ve had excellent results using peat free over the last couple of years. I hope my gardening helps nature and it just started to feel weird to be helping to destroy it somewhere else. I’m also relatively new to gardening compared to many here so haven’t had the negative experiences some seem to have had in the past. If anyone is reading this thread and thinking about trying peat free I’d really encourage you to have a go for yourself.
Good to hear this Slum and I agree with your outlook completely. All the best for the new growing season.
Bracing myself for the tirade of abuse, but IMHO , they're crap. I buy from a nursery which proudly claims, " totally peat free" and everything I buy from them needs to be checked constantly as they dry out as soon as you turn your back on them.
There is some rubbish peat free composts out there I agree, but there’s some good ones too. Things have come on in recent years. The Dalefoot composts generally don’t dry out because they are made with sheep’s wool which retains moisture well. But they’re not cheap or common in many garden centres yet. Sylvagrow is another good one which is more readily available.
If you really think you can't do without peat, the Organic Gardening Catalogue sells peat which is recovered from reservoirs. Particles of peat naturally get washed into streams and rivers, and end up in reservoirs. So you can buy this with a clean eco-conscience.
I turn up to 80 builders' dumpy sacks of "waste" into compost every year which is then returned to soil and not into landfill. I think I'm doing my bit.
I turn up to 80 builders' dumpy sacks of "waste" into compost every year which is then returned to soil and not into landfill. I think I'm doing my bit.
That's the best way of doing it. Make your own compost - you can't argue with that.
Good to see Monty back with gardeners world tonight. Pleased to hear that there’s going to be more focus on why we should all be using peat free compost as the series progresses.
The Corpral Jones of this world who produce and present programes are given license on the BBC to espouse their own personal preduices on what should be a nuteral platform, for example.
Every news presenter during their stint had to mention "climate change"
Same during the run up to Brexit every presenter appeared to be against it, Brexiteers were idiots and Brexit was fuelling "climate change"
David Attenborough mentions "climate change" many time during his programmes, were're all doomed if we do not change, but not him or his mates.
Tom Heap "the Prophet of Doom" from Country File has "climate change" in every extract he presents.
As for Monty Don, plastic and peat to him are like "mothers ruination" the end of gardening as we know it.
They are all a bunch of doom merchants trying to stop others carrying on every day deeds,as they travel the world destroying the planet without a thought for others.
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Cheaper just buying the plants.....
Call me cynical, but, I'm also slightly concerned that there might be an ulterior motive in promoting it.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think I'm doing my bit.