Comments on: General Discussion.

By: julie grady

julie grady — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:31:45 +0000

Hi,
I am just about to start growing vegetables in raised beds, i want to use organic products, can you please advise whether you would advise me to use a blend of top soil and compost? i need 3 tonne, what would you recommend and at what cost`/ delivery to BL9

By: Croton

Croton — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:51:07 +0000

Just about to try FF for the first time for our Organic Smallholding. Must say what a friendly and efficient service and the perfect solution for a farm like us – mixed palet and a sensible quantity available – we did not have to buy a lorry load and mortgage our souls to be able to have proper organic seed compost – can’t wait to get going.

By: Angela Fordham

Angela Fordham — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:32:56 +0000

I run a Horticultural Training/ Therapy Site called Greenshoots. I converted to Fertile Fibre this year for all our seed sowing and veg production. I have been really pleased with the performance of the compost, particularly its water holding abilities as weekend watering is sometimes a bit hit and miss! I’ve lost very few plants and they all seem to be growing on strongly.
I agree with other comments about it being clean and easy to use, the adults I work with all have learning difficulties, and I can send them home looking fairly clean after a dust off! Definately a bonus!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:17:00 +0000

Mark,

It depends what you are using the compost for. If you will be making your own potting mix and your own compost is nice and dark and crumbly then leave the Nugro out for now – you can always mix some up up if your plants lok as though they need that extra boost and apply it as a liquid feed.

We find putting the coir bales in a wheelbarrow full of water and soaking for three days helps!

By: Mark Hasson

Mark Hasson — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:03:16 +0000

Evening, I have made compost from vegetable and garden waste and intend to bulk it up with coir bales. I was wondering if I would benefit from adding Nugro nutrients, or would that be overkill?
Many Thanks

By: Anthony Morris

Anthony Morris — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:33:06 +0000

Hi
I purchased a pack of potting plus No.2750 to try out for my cacti,
the results are so good particularly with the germination of seed that I shall be ordering another pack asap.

By: Caroline Barugh

Caroline Barugh — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:27:19 +0000

Well what can i say… i have never used a compost like fertile fibre, the texture is so light and fine, my seeds have germinated beautifully in it. You can feel and see the goodness in it! I wouldnt use anything else!

By: Louise Young

Louise Young — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:58:39 +0000

Extremely friendly and efficient service. We are an organic farm that grows vegetables for our shop and box scheme, we started growing all the vegetables from seed last year rather than contracting out to a nursery, we used fertile fibre compost mixes for all our growing and were delighted with the excellent results we acheived.

Love the new website!

By: Gwen Phillips

Gwen Phillips — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:08:33 +0000

By: Nathan Richards, Troed-Y-Rhiw Organcis

Nathan Richards, Troed-Y-Rhiw Organcis — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:33:42 +0000

I’ve been using Fertile Fibre seed and potting mix for the last few years at the various farms I have grown veg for. This year starting out for ourselves with our own farm I shall certainly continue with these composts. I particularly like the mixes as they always do exactly what they are supposed to and they consistently give excellent and reliable results.