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Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3359 Location: Herts

What is your favourite mix for sowing seeds into??

Propriatory brand or home made ... and if so what! Confused

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daveandtara · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject:

whatever's cheapest in wilkos Cool

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redimp · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:12 pm Post subject:

I would really like to use a decent peat free one but am using a peat based B&Q one at the moment. For potting on I am using New Horizon Peat Free Organic compost.

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green2 · Prince Charming Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 926

Despite the stalking bit I am proud of you for using decent stuff, you can use it for seedlings if you add vermiculite.

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wardy · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:28 am Post subject:

I got some peat free stuff but it's orrible and full of sticks and furry crap (probably coconut fibres or some such). Anyway been sieving it but the celeriac I sowed in it looks rubbish. All grey on the surface now Confused

I've got some Levingtons which I think is peat based but I thought I could mix the two bags. I don't want to use peat cos that is why Sheffield flooded cos of all the peat extraction going on and I dare say that's what happened all over Britain

Got some soil based seed compost for sowing onions into

Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3359 Location: Herts

But does anyone mix their own ???

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wardy · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject:

sometimes

I do on the plot cos of no dig sometimes I need a bit of good stuff to get seedlings off to a good start so I mix lotty soil with multipurpose and a bit of grit sand. No, I don't sterilise the soil Very Happy

Give it a whirl Flo Very Happy

reedos · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:56 am Post subject:

Don't have any choice - all they have here is some German stuff which they call flower soil. Have no idea whether it is peat based or not. At home I just used B&Q own 3 for a tenner bags - and used it for everything.

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Juliet · Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Posts: 181 Location: Cambridge

I use Fertile Fibre for everything - it's peat free, organic, multipurpose, & not like the horrible sticky peat-free stuff they sell in the shops. It costs a fortune, but it is lovely stuff. I usually mix it with sand &/or perlite, depending what I'm planting in it. They do a seed compost too, but I don't bother with that as I don't grow enough from seed to make it worth getting anything special.

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Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3359 Location: Herts

When we were in Africa I can remember as a kid we used to make our own:

1/3 soil
1/3 compost
1/3 sharp sand

riddle it all together and there you have it! I do much the same now adays but add some vermiculite for good measure Very Happy

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I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad: I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!