John Innes was used extensively for garden ground planting for mixing in in the DIG FOR VICTORY campaign. We used it for mixing in in National Trust ground planting campaigns planting in the ground for pollinators and wildlife, adapting it from and modelling the campaigns on Dig for Victory.
"As part of the ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign during World War 2, the compost recipe and heat sterilisation process were both released to the public to help feed a rationed population. To further the war effort, John Innes staff also published a series of leaflets and gave radio broadcasts to publicise their new composts and other improved methods for raising garden crops."
You posted this in a previous post, my, how you’ve come on in a year, enough to contradict every single long term gardener . Stand back and take a look at yourself. ‘I got into gardening only because my newly bought apartment came with a big garden and I want to make it an oasis for bees and butterflies in our town which is, like most places, a FOOD DESERT to bees, butterflies, birds, hedgehogs, and foxes due to man's activities’
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
@Jac19 nowhere in your Dig for Victory links does it say that the JI composts were dug into the land … they were used to raise the seedlings in the greenhouses before planting out.
My grandparents who started me off on my gardening story over 60 years ago, were doing just that.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That's a really interesting article @Jac19 but I don't think it's saying what you think it is.
“ The methods required to make the composts were published in 1939 in a pamphlet entitled ‘Seed and Potting Composts’.”
They released it to the public to help people raise seedlings for their veg gardens as part of 'dig for victory'. They weren't telling people to put the compost in their soil.
I have been a gardener all my life. I was deeply into gardening while I was an active part of National Trust conservation groups.
I joined this site to add to my current garden - ONE reason - and because I don't have the time to volunteer for the National Trust anymore and I missed my hobby. I talked about 1 reason there and other reasons in many other threads.
I had a property before this that I sold on and so on, except for the 6 years I lived in the city where I only had a balcony and did container gardening.
This whole thread is hilarious - but for all the wrong reasons... ...and what the **** does this mean: "talking proven milk into dog poo " ? I feel as if I'm in some kind of parallel universe these days!
Dig for Victory called all composts added in "COMPOST". John Innes was one of the COMPOSTS. They did not name one or ban one or the other. We modelled our conservation drives on Dig for Victory.
I think it's Make your mind up time @Jac19 Either your recently acquired apartment "got you into gardening" ( ie you are fairly new to gardening ) or "you have been a gardener all your life". You cannot be both and it is unfair to new gardeners to offer responses until you make clear which one it is. This is not trolling you - it is simply asking for clarification.
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https://dig-for-victory.org.uk/
"As part of the ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign during World War 2, the compost recipe and heat sterilisation process were both released to the public to help feed a rationed population. To further the war effort, John Innes staff also published a series of leaflets and gave radio broadcasts to publicise their new composts and other improved methods for raising garden crops."
https://www.jic.ac.uk/blog/the-john-innes-centre-and-the-compost-that-bears-our-name/
Stand back and take a look at yourself.
‘I got into gardening only because my newly bought apartment came with a big garden and I want to make it an oasis for bees and butterflies in our town which is, like most places, a FOOD DESERT to bees, butterflies, birds, hedgehogs, and foxes due to man's activities’
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“ The methods required to make the composts were published in 1939 in a pamphlet entitled ‘Seed and Potting Composts’.”
I joined this site to add to my current garden - ONE reason - and because I don't have the time to volunteer for the National Trust anymore and I missed my hobby. I talked about 1 reason there and other reasons in many other threads.
I had a property before this that I sold on and so on, except for the 6 years I lived in the city where I only had a balcony and did container gardening.
...and what the **** does this mean: "talking proven milk into dog poo " ?
I feel as if I'm in some kind of parallel universe these days!
@Lyn - Del Boy
@gjautos - if any of those PMs are abusive, please report them to the mods
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have to work, attacking trolls.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Either your recently acquired apartment "got you into gardening" ( ie you are fairly new to gardening ) or "you have been a gardener all your life". You cannot be both and it is unfair to new gardeners to offer responses until you make clear which one it is.
This is not trolling you - it is simply asking for clarification.