Being peat innocent has been one of the highest priorities for Allwoods , but it has take them much longer than they thought it would .
The company first started moving to peat free composts over 10 years ago when they changed originate their young hack plants , they trialed various hoopla products and find the coir plug to be the skillful choice . " The coir plugs are idealistic for us as they are very easy to address which being a ring armour order company is essential , the plants root and develop really well in them and unlike some glue plugs that if allow for to dry out out too much get almost inconceivable to re - soak - the coir ace do n’t . "
However , they involve to receive a product that would also suit their female parent stock .
" So we started trialing various dissimilar compost and with various degrees of winner and failures - we had to be thrifty though , because with many of our varieties we are the only nursery that store and grow them , so if we lose the female parent stock certificate we would be in big trouble ! "
But they could n’t find a completely peat free compost that their plants liked to be in … until recently . Over the age compost manufacturers have had huge demands put on them to be peat free and last Allwoods have find out one that their plants care to develop and execute well in .
" Then come the backbreaking chore of re - potting ALL our female parent stock industrial plant - over 9,000 pots , truthfully I lost reckoning ! Not only does that take time but also a lot of compost , several pallet loads ! "
But finally this line of work has been done and Allwoods can now , lastly and very proudly annunciate they are peat free - all their plants are grow peat gratuitous .
" However a word of caution before you go change things to grow in peat free , changes have to be made , watering habits have to be altered , eating has to be increased to issue the plants the nutrients they need that they would have ordinarily gotten from peat . Also what compost works for one variety does n’t work for all necessarily - you have to trial it to the crop your ontogeny , as different plant require different things . So just because we find this production to be staring for us , other people may not be so happy with it - like all things gardening , what works for one does n’t always act for all . "
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