I've just bought a couple of bags of peat-free New Horizon compost. It is total, utter sh!te ... and it wasn't cheap. Might just empty the hoover bag and pot up my plants
Has anyone found anything half decent that I can mix with my home-made stuff?
Bee x
Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
I bought a bag of the Miracle grow stuff on Friday @Bee witched. It doesn't look too bad - but you need to loosen it up a bit. I'm going to experiment a bit - mixing it with grit for anything I'm potting on that needs good drainage, mixing with Perlite for seeds [not holding my breath on that though] and adding manure to that first mix for pots with annuals or similar. Normally, I'd just use compost alone for those, apart from seeds, which would get some Perlite. Sweet peas would be the exception - they'd just be sown in normal compost. I'll do some straight into the compost as a control as well.
If it's useless, I'll have to review it. Annoying though, that I feel I have to mix it with other things, which makes it even more expensive. I'm not going to have any usable home made compost until next year, or I'd be going with that, with some extras added.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The best dry weather we've had in ages and I'm listening to rain sounds on Youtube
why?
It helps to encourage the overactive part of my brain to shut up while I'm trying to concentrate on work. 'Rainy day in the greenhouse' was working nicely today.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The best dry weather we've had in ages and I'm listening to rain sounds on Youtube
why?
It helps to encourage the overactive part of my brain to shut up while I'm trying to concentrate on work. 'Rainy day in the greenhouse' was working nicely today.
Generally I find Sylvagrow, one of the best, though as I hinted earlier, previous Which best buy doesn't mean its best now. I find it one of the most consistent, though not cheap by any means.
I've not seen Melcourt Sylvagrow anywhere around here.
Edit: I've just checked on the "where to buy" page on Melcourt's
website. The nearest stockist is about a 40 mile round trip . And it's
not as if I live in a low-population rural area.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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It is total, utter sh!te ... and it wasn't cheap.
Might just empty the hoover bag and pot up my plants
Has anyone found anything half decent that I can mix with my home-made stuff?
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
It doesn't look too bad - but you need to loosen it up a bit.
I'm going to experiment a bit - mixing it with grit for anything I'm potting on that needs good drainage, mixing with Perlite for seeds [not holding my breath on that though] and adding manure to that first mix for pots with annuals or similar.
Normally, I'd just use compost alone for those, apart from seeds, which would get some Perlite. Sweet peas would be the exception - they'd just be sown in normal compost. I'll do some straight into the compost as a control as well.
If it's useless, I'll have to review it. Annoying though, that I feel I have to mix it with other things, which makes it even more expensive. I'm not going to have any usable home made compost until next year, or I'd be going with that, with some extras added.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...