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    Potting on with 'rough' compost

    I have some heirloom toms seedlings that needed potting on from their modules.

    I opened a bag of Peat Free Compost but it's really 'rough' and not at all crumbly and all the bags appear to be the same and I had no other compost left. Now I'm worried that that my young toms won't survive. Should I be concerned or am I fussing?
    Last edited by amandaandherveg; 26-05-2009, 12:53 PM.
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    I used B&Q Peat Free compost and that was really rough and woody but all my plants including Toms, Q's and Beans are all doing fine. Hope that reassures you.
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    • #3
      Thanks Peanut - I have the same stuff. All my regular toms are doing well and I don't want my 'fancy' toms to die on me.

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      • #4
        I sowed my tomato seeds in the Homebase peat free - which is "rough" as you describe it (woody is another way I suppose).

        All seem to have germinated without issue.
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        • #5
          I bought some westland peat free from Tesco's, it was like sawdust and shavings. Won't be getting that stuff again.
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          • #6
            I have found this - even some of the peat free seed compost has big lumps of tree in it.

            Do any people have any suggestions of where to buy less chunky peat free?

            I have been sieving mine and blending some john innes with it to make it a bit more er compost like I have then been using the larger bits of tree in the bottom of pots as drainage.
            Excuse me, could we have an eel? You've got eels down your leg.

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            • #7
              I sow into peat free mixed with my own compost and sand - and sieve it [put the bits left in the sieve at the bottom of the module, and have the sieve fine stuff on the top]...but potting on is done into either growbags or growbags mixed with well rotted manure [WRM], or peat free mixed with well rotted manure.

              Once germinated, toms and peppers need something more feisty than peat free....so I go straight for WRM...and mix it with anything I've already got hanging around.

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