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I was in Poundland today and got two 40l bags of red bag moorland multipurpose. It was dry so nice and light and at £3.50 a bag decent value on the face of it.

Has anyone had much luck with it in the past? I've liked moorland gold a lot but it's expensive

 

I quite liked Moorlands Gold which I used last year. As you say very expensive and definitely lacking in nutrients if plants were left for any time in it plus quite a lot of weed seeds. Won’t buy again. Presume the red bag is peat free?

 

Never seen it around here.

 

It doesn't say on the bag, it's this one



I've not opened mine yet though

 

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That’s not what I got, mine was in a white bag and had green writing say it was organic and was called Moorlands Gold. Hope what you have got is a success.
I have just sourced some Clover MPC and started potting on seedlings. The texture is very nice with a fair doze of peat…..yes well I am pretty environmentally friendly with many things
but draw the line at peat when commercial growers can get as much as they like!
Apart from a stone in the compost which was about 2 inches in diameter all is very good and I will be getting more and have found a very reasonable supplier.

 

Just bought 2 bags for £12 it says 50%peat.
Only 50ltr bags though, shrinkflation yet again.
They had Jack's magic 2 for£16 they were 60 ltr bags.

 

I was speaking to a compost supplier a couple of days ago when he delivered a pallet load of Clover to me. I am sharing it with a friend who is a big veg grower. The supplier said there is no ban on peat being in retail compost….yet! He also said that despite loads of experiments nobody has come up with a suitable replacement for peat. If you include too much wood waste in compost it depletes the nitrogen available for plants to grow and Coir is just a no. All his commercial growers will not accept any of the peat free alternatives as their vegetables won’t grow properly in green waste. Until there is some sort of regulations as to what goes into green waste he agreed with me to give those composts an extremely wide birth!

 

For houseplants which need light airy compost, I found BioBizz very good:

 

The "ban" is mostly about retailers wanting to appear environmentally friendly, so they can state its peat free and gain favour of certain members of the public who have been brainwashed, brainwashing is going on everywhere these days, but we are not supposed to notice it.

 

I could kick myself as I saw some peat compost for sale in Devon last week and really wanted to buy some but as you say, we have been brainwashed to believe we shouldn't use it.

 

All the garden centres near me still stock compost containing peat. No banning or brainwashing here, just a lack of environmental consciousness . One of them is a traditional garden centre (plants only, glasshouses on site, no scented candles or rubbish) and sells the same compost as the plants are grown in.

 

I reluctantly say it's a good kind of brainwashing.

Extracting peat is indeed quite a big whack to the ecosystem there, and to think that we gardeners face just an inconvenience of getting used to new kind of ready made convenient compost we use mainly for pleasure, not for survival, makes me ashamed to confess I also hunt for the peaty stuff.

I was born in 1971 and am probably of the first generation of leisure growers who have been supplied with tailored growth media in neat bags.

I'm telling myself just to get used to this, to learn new tricks and habits and get on with it. Peatlands are important and should be left as they are, and not be disturbed just because I wish my Petunias to do well.

 

The reason I say brainwashing is because as with all these environmental measures they are false, so convince the public they shouldn't buy peat compost when the trade are still using it.

Ban the use or don't but as usual half measures.
The country will be covered in houses and solar panels in a few years anyway, how does that fit in with caring for the environment.