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VerdunVerdun Posts: 23,348
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let's let the suppliers and growers of plants know we are fed up with their plug plant nets. image


frequently I am seeing these root restricting nets in bigger plants that are not thriving as they should do.  Growers/suppliers may claim they biodegrade and don't hamper growth but they DO. image

whenever I see them I remove these nets but often when repotted before sale they cannot be seen.  

sure, they are easier for growers when potting but for is, the consumers, they produce poorer plants.  Roots do not grow well and often produce dry small root systems.  I find nets in large potted plants and definitely think plants struggle and die prematurely because of them. 

Say NO to netting image

 

 

 

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,503

    Is this the same as tea bags or something even more insidious?

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • NGLittleSeedlingsNGLittleSeedlings Posts: 729

    I agree!

  • SparklesJDSparklesJD Posts: 344

    I agree!

    I was so proud of my little plug clematises and one of them is very poorly now because all it's roots were squished up image

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Maybe a good idea when you see something you want to buy from any company, email them and ask them if they've been grown in the dreaded things, if they say yes, tell them you won't order then.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,503

    It's  mechanisation . Somebody explained it when I had a moan about teabag plants last year.

    I've been coming across grey rectangles with holes in them. I wondered how bits of breeze block had got into my garden. I then discovered that it was the dreaded teabag full of bone dry peat despite the surrounding soil being beyond wet.

    I think that the answer is to avoid  the Big & Questionable suppliers.

    However, it occurs to me that there may well be rich pickings in the sin bins.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • SparklesJDSparklesJD Posts: 344

    Change.org petition? Comments on company Facebook pages?

    On the plus side, your awareness-raising campaign is slowly working... the three jumbo plug geraniums I ordered in January arrived Tuesday (I got an email yesterday to tell me that they were on their way, but that's another issue) and I spotted and removed the nylons before I potted them - I wouldn't have known to do that a month ago. Roots were growing through in some places, but in other spots the plug had sort of folded in on itself. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    I'm old enough to remember stuff being dug up and wrapped in hessain and tied up and being told it'd all rot down. 

    The number of aged , dead shrubs I dug up in my career with tourniquets of string around the base!!!!

    Devon.
  • Peanuts3Peanuts3 Posts: 759

    I'm a fairly new gardener, 3 years in, so what should be looking for ?  Could someone post a picture, apologies for my ignorance.  Also which companies do this so we know when to look out for them ? thank you.

  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    The only tea bag plants I have bought have been pansies or violas but not caused any  problems as these are small plants any way 

    But for bigger plants or those that need to grow a bit more I can see it would be a problem 

     

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