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root trainers v. pots
Lyn
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Does anyone else use root trainers?
I can hardly believe the difference, same French beans, planted at the same time, pathetic efforts in the pots!
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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I use root trainers and old looroll inners for sweetpeas. Never done a pot comparison to prove it is better, so interesting to see the difference. Will definitely carry on. Don't notice any difference between loorolls and roottrainers though, so i guess it is all about length of root run
Exactly Logan, flower pots just dont work, those root trainers about 5 r 6 inches deep.
I dont know how they work but in pots the root goes round and round, in the trainer they go straight down then back up, by then they are ready to plant out,
I like deep root trainers for sweet peas.
Hmm, the science behind this now has my worried about my partial adoption of biodegradable pots this year thinking that I could just plant the entire pot and let the roots grow out as the pots fall apart (which most were starting to do before I planted them on) - I guess the extra time in the 'pot' in the ground is just going to continue the length of time the roots grow in the spiral before breaking through..????
True, Edd, brilliant aren't they, I wouldn't use anything else.
If I get anything in biodegradable pots, or those mesh bags, I always remove the plant.
These root trainers are on their 4th year now, and will still go on for longer.