LOL! no, I'm meant what is the ph of coir! Found another site which listed it at just below 6. I've got acid lovers too so take care not to add any alkaline.
Yes, it has a ph of 5/5.5 so it is actually close to neutral. I take your warning about it affecting my acid plants but I would always mix the coir with my own compost, which I assume is acidic in nature. Also I wouldn't use it in my beds but rather in pots, baskets and spud bags mainly. I use only my own compost to mulch thereby retaining the soil's acidity.
I am new to this gardening lark and have some flowers and chillies growing in pots and tomatoes in grow bags, in my concrete yard. I also have some tomatillos currently inside in some small pots, but they need to go out.
I was going to grow them in a 20 ltr bag, which I am planning to use with coir compost blocks.
Two questions should I put small stones at the bottom of the bag to help with drainage and should I add extra soil/multi purpose compost?
I used coir extensively last spring, bought from 'Bargain Buys' I think? Very cheap at around 2 or 3 quid for a block that once hydrated, filled a wheel barrow.
Seeds germinated in it freely, cosmos bloomed in it for months and I found it actually retained water at least as well as peat based compost, if not better. I plan to buy more
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Found those metal things....
http://www.blackberrylane.co.uk/ladbrooke.html
Acidic measurement - anything more than a ph of 7 is alkaline, 7 is neutral and anything less than ph of 7 is acidic.
We are lucky here, acidic soil so our springs are full of flaming pieris and colourful azaleas and then rhodedendrens.
LOL! no, I'm meant what is the ph of coir!
Found another site which listed it at just below 6. I've got acid lovers too so take care not to add any alkaline.
Sorry Supernoodle, misread and misunderstood!
Yes, it has a ph of 5/5.5 so it is actually close to neutral. I take your warning about it affecting my acid plants but I would always mix the coir with my own compost, which I assume is acidic in nature. Also I wouldn't use it in my beds but rather in pots, baskets and spud bags mainly. I use only my own compost to mulch thereby retaining the soil's acidity.
I am new to this gardening lark and have some flowers and chillies growing in pots and tomatoes in grow bags, in my concrete yard. I also have some tomatillos currently inside in some small pots, but they need to go out.
I was going to grow them in a 20 ltr bag, which I am planning to use with coir compost blocks.
Two questions should I put small stones at the bottom of the bag to help with drainage and should I add extra soil/multi purpose compost?
Thanks
Thanks Edd
Gosh it's scarey how these companies are watching and listening to everything we write on here!
Have you got a 'quarry' about it Lyn - you should contact them!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I could do with a pallet load of that.
I used coir extensively last spring, bought from 'Bargain Buys' I think? Very cheap at around 2 or 3 quid for a block that once hydrated, filled a wheel barrow.
Seeds germinated in it freely, cosmos bloomed in it for months and I found it actually retained water at least as well as peat based compost, if not better. I plan to buy more