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| Whilst I make my own for potting on plants, I always buy in seed compost as its very precise with its nutrient content etc and this is the time you really need to "get it right". Others way well be able to enlighten you.
__________________ Kindest regards, David. http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/ updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs |
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Substitute blood,fish and bone meal for the growmore and you have the basic ingredients for all the John Innes formulaes which you could google for!![]()
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| I had thought about making my own seed compost after acquiring packets of strawberry seeds that specified vermiculite (& I want to make sure the strawberry germinate)....otherwise I had never bothered with seed compost other than multi-purpose compost or homemade compost that didn't feel too heavy with soil for seed sowing. I read somewhere that seed compost is a mixture of peat, sand, steriled loam (which I thought I might sieve with kitchen sieve and heated in oven ) and add to it superphosphate that is supposed to help with root growth. But I think I won't bother as most of my veggies have been fine with normal compost except for stuffs like strawberry that I don't feel too confident.
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| I use 2 parts sieved allotment compost, 1 part leaf mould, 1 part sharp sand and blood fish and bone to make mine.
__________________ Kindest regards, David. http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/ updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs |
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Loam would be garden soil? Cheers, Sue. |
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Any garden centre should have coir in either a block form that you soak before use or bagged coir! Loam is good garden soil (preferably, but not necessarily, sterilised!)
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But not as green as you think as transporting it from the far east is not sustainable. Try reclaimed peat that does not involve digging up peat bogs, about 4000 miles less for it to travel.
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| We did have Snadger, but they were all cut down for bio fuel and coir block production so now we only have lleylandi left.
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Substitute blood,fish and bone meal for the growmore and you have the basic ingredients for all the John Innes formulaes which you could google for!

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