Your favourite sowing medium?
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tippben Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 15 Jan 2011 Posts: 921 Location: north tipperary
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Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:24 am Post subject: Your favourite sowing medium? |
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Due to financial constraints, for the last couple of years I've been using cheapest multipurpose compost for my seedlings, with mixed results. I was working in the UK until recently, so I'm only just starting to sow my veggies and flowers (looks like I didn't miss much!)
I treated myself to some John Innes 1, and vermiculite, which I'm mixing 50/50. I use cling film until seeds have germinated, at which point I remove it. I have some peppers and basil sowed with the use of a heating mat, but I only have one of those...
Is my sowing mix adequate? Could I improve it? I'm sure I could. |
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The Garden Shop Rank attained: Rowan Tree


Joined: 05 Aug 2011 Posts: 133 Location: Laois
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:39 am Post subject: |
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If youv'e got a good loam garden soil you can mix this through your potting compost to make it go further.
Id generally use a general potting compost & perlite
3: 1 ratio.
for cuttings i add sand and superphosphate.
Then everything goes in seed trays with propagation lids and into my greenhouse.. |
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pollen jim Rank attained: Hawthorn Tree

Joined: 14 Mar 2013 Posts: 86 Location: MULLINGAR
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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westland seed compost is the best i've come across, lovely to work with and nice and fine, they say 25% better than other compost. i use it and would'nt have anything else, best on market 7 euro a bag |
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