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Sylvagrow Peat Free Multipurpose Compost - Why its consistently good.

KiliKili Posts: 1,104
edited 23 February in The potting shed
Sylvagrow Peat-Free Multipurpose Compost has recently become available where I live so thought I would give it a try. What a difference to the rubbish I've had to sieve multiple times to get a decent compost. I'm converted to Sylvagrow henceforth. Its so much finer and consistent in quality from bag to bag.
I found an interesting YouTube video explaining how their recipe stays consistent over time.

View it here 

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

George Bernard Shaw'

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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I’m also a fan of Sylvagrow but Fertile Fibre is even better.
    Rutland, England
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    BenCotto said:
    I’m also a fan of Sylvagrow but Fertile Fibre is even better.
    Thanks @BenCotto, never heard of that one either. I'll have to see if its available locally.

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

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited 23 February
    It's interesting to look up nurseries that have been using only peat-free for years - what mix they use, how they do it happily. Plantsman's Preference have been peat-free for six years, I think, and are helping other nurseries to  (belatedly) go over. Beth Chatto five years. Dixter ten years.

    It does seem clear that most of the industry seemed to be under the impression that the ban would never happen and therefore few people bothered to investigate other ways of working. It's crazy that it's only now - after decades of knowing how disasterous peat damage is - that compost producers and nurseries are considering options. "Peat is better, so we will carry on oblivious". They then complain that they didn't have time to prepare. This sums up the various eco crises in a nutshell. They won't change unless forced.

    The key is not to make big changes in a hurry (else you get the rubbish composts we see being produced). If so many compost companies had started ten years ago to properly investigate, test, experiment and learn how to evolve, they wouldn't be churning out rubbish today and be slated for it. They would already be sorted out and leading the way, instead of being dragged kicking and screaming.


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