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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Lyn said:
    @Kili. Here it is,  tiny fibre bits, dusty soil and sand,  no lumps,  no plastic. 


    That looks very similar to bagged compost I got from our local nursery.  They claim it's what they grow all their plants in but it dries out very fast and blows away.  Much of it looks like wool and has about the same weight to it.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    I had a bag of Levington last year  your "bits" were white, looked like shredded up matchstick wood! Loads of it, I tried to complain to maker, got fobbed off about drive towards peat free. BTW it was a bag of M2 supposedly professional grade . 
    AB Still learning

  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    edited May 2023
    Lyn said:
     :D:D  
    @Kili. Here it is,  tiny fibre bits, dusty soil and sand,  no lumps,  no plastic. 


    @Lyn yeah mine looks like that too including the small twigs but, I wouldn't call mine sandy. Its certinaly not what we're all used to but, I haven't had any issues with it.

    Change is always difficult but, as Darwin said "Adapt or die" or was it " Resistance is Futile" I always get mixed up.  :D:D:D:D:D

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Let’s hope then, I’ll be sowing my runner beans tomorrow,  I’ll be annoyed if they don’t germinate, I’ve always had 100% germination.
    it annoys me that Gardeners don’t contribute to very much of the peat extraction. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    Lyn said:
    Let’s hope then, I’ll be sowing my runner beans tomorrow,  I’ll be annoyed if they don’t germinate, I’ve always had 100% germination.
    it annoys me that Gardeners don’t contribute to very much of the peat extraction. 

    A runner beans a big seed it should be fine without sieving but if you want to help it along a bit of perlite and a sieve first wont hurt.

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’ll put some perlite in,  Ive never sieved anything,  haven’t even got one. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @Lyn, Three-quarters of my runner bean seeds haven't germinated. Thinking of sowing some more soon. I'm using the same type of compost as you and I'm not impressed either.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Only 2out of 24 runner beans germinated first time.  I  am waiting to see what happens to the new sowing. 
    AB Still learning

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Round here they say to sow beans on the 15th of May.   Big discussion at the fĂȘte des voisins on Saturday but no-one knew why.  Probably to do with lunar cycles and the saints glace - icy saints who bring late, heavy, killing frosts up north and chilly bits down here that can check or kill tender new plants.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Oh dear!  I was going to sow mine on the 15th, not for any other reason than that we get frost up to June and they need warmth.
    I’ve always had 100% germination,  as I just had with French Beans. They were sown in Erin. 
    I’m temped to cut the losses and go to the GC and see if they still have Erin. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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