Which Magazine “Best Peat Free”
FERTILE FIBRE NEEDS YOUR HELP
Campaign to make Fertile Fibre the BEST Peat Free compost by Which Magazine.
We need your support to email Which and ask why they are not trialling Fertile Fibre Compost.
For to long we have waited to be included, So now we are asking our supporters to email Which and ask them to include us in a Peat Free Trial.
email Which at:~ which@which.co.uk
Who else has been producing Peat Free composts for 20 years, and not once included in Which trial.
Was first producer of organic peat free compost–Soil Association approved.
Fertile Fibre Thanks You for your support
Gardening Which? magazine have brought out a critical report on peat free potting compost.
Each year they trial 20 plus bags of compost and peat compost always come out best.
Not suprising as peat is an ideal growing medium for most plants.
The problem is peat is extracted from fragile wildlife havens and the sale of peat compost
is going to be illegal after 2012.
I always welcome Gardening Which? reports but there was one organic peat free bagged
compost they didn’t trial.
Fertile Fibre. I don’t know why.
I know plenty of people who have used this recycled compost (its made out of waste coconut fiber – coir)
as an effective alternative to peat free.
You can get it from the organic gardening catalogue.
Alternatively you could make your own potting compost using a mix of one part home made compost
to one part top soil to one part sharp sand (available at garden centres).
The best peat free compost in the trial was Westland Peat Free Multi-Purpose compost
with added John Innes.
This is made out of composted bark and got the same rating as two peat composts
and better than two others.
This should be available from most garden centres.
Also it should be noted that Gardening Which? deliberately pick seeds that are notoriously hard to germinate.
Written by Allan Sheperd
May 3rd, 2010 at 7:09 am
Dear Which,
I understand that you are at present trialling various brands of peat-free compost. I am writing to ask you to include Fertile Fibre in these trials. I have been using Fertile Fibre for roughly 15 years, with excellent results. Several times over the years I have picked up bags of other peat-free compost from garden centres, and have invariably been deeply disappointed – seeds have failed to germinate, or growth is poor and slow, and root systems are not as extensive as they should be. (I garden both at home – ornamental pots – and at the allotment, and start most of my plants off from seed).
Fertile Fibre have been producing coir-based compost for about 20 years, and I can honestly say that I have never been disappointed. I think they are one of the pioneers of the peat-free compost movement – please do give them a chance!!
Yours sincerely,
Deborah Tomkins