How I prick out seedlings and why I use peat free compost 

That was. Lovely relaxin pricking out vid and the sound of the rain☔ was very comforting 😊

Good morning! I need another video with you and your mother! 🙏

I have found Durstons peat-free compost amazing. Seeds have grown well, plants have grown well. Highly recommend and the price is reasonable.

Your seedlings look spritely and happy. I am amazed your fingers aren’t actually green. I will definitely be using only peat free compost forever.

Great thoughts on use of peet in gardening!!!

This was so helpful for me. Thank you so much Georgie

I use Sylvagrow a lot, as it's peat-free and vegan-friendly, and has proven to work well for tricky-to-germinate rare seeds. For the latter, I generally mix it with a lot of horticultural grit and topsoil

What did people use before composts became commercial? My grandad and my mother grew seeds and plants directly into the ground and had great success.

Blimey it sounds like a monsoon out there!!! As you say watering from the bottom is definitely a better way to keep the moisture in the soil. I’ve learnt the hard way! I might just spray the top lightly. However my tomato seedlings look just like yours, rather leggy but I’ve been told if I replant them in deeper compost there will develop stronger roots. I love your channel as you are great fun, your advice is really good and you answer most of my questions.

Please look into visiting the places where peat bogs are being restored as well as Cumbria , the Landward sites in Scotland are doing a remarkable job ! Greetings from Zimbabwe 🙂🙃

Hi from Australia, Georgie.🌴🌻Would you please be able to tell me what temperature is required for the 'ammis', Daucus, and similar seeds, to germinate, and how long the seeds need to experience these colder temperatures? Should I start them during our autumn? I live in the subtropics but have mild to cool winter day temps, with cold nights averaging 3-9C Also, do you sow many seeds that need cold stratification, directly into the soil beds during autumn, so they can germinate when the correct temperatures are reached? Thank you so much Georgie. I would greatly appreciate your help. You are a wealth of information🥀🌺🌷

Have you started your tomatoes in the poly ? I am curious to try some tomato seeds in unheated greenhouse to when they would come up. Very enjoyable content.

Did I hear you say you took up gardening at 40? You have come alone way…and your mom is such a wonderful gardener.

We definitely need zones here in Canada. It's not so much for last and first frost dates as survival of plants. We cannot plant anything in my province that is higher than 4B. It won't survive the winter.

Clover multi purpose compost is manufactured by a family in Ireland that uses peat from a sustainable peat bog. However, I will try Silvergro and you might just convince me to go peat free.

New to your channel. Do you also use soil blocking to start seeds? Such a space saver for me and eliminates pricking out and potting up if started at the ‘correct’ time. 😊

The US zones only refer to winter hardiness. They have nothing whatsoever to do with growing annual veg and flowers. I'm in zone 8b in the PNW,but my growing season is shorter than say a zone 7 in the southern states.

I am certified organic, and use compost allowed in certified organic practises (peat free!) , but the trouble is that organic/eco soilmix is infested with pyralids, the producers cant find enough organic animal manure, and use conventional chicken manure and cow manure etc, I have had my seedlings ruined by pyralid damage the last 2 years, and not the only one- it is affecting so many, it is horrible to see these seedlings curling until they die. Conventional compost use artificial fertilizer so they are not affected by pyralids. I have tried a few vendors, and are following pyralid info Pages etc. some organic compost vendors are now using an artificial fertilizer allowed in organic growing instead of manure, but none of the pro composts are using it so far.

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I hate to take the other side of the argument on bogs but here in Ireland there is a big fight on this matter as on the other side is a fight about peat free composts been environmental friendly especially on coir coco composts need large amounts of water needed to produce coir compost and the amount of salts need to be extracted coir is not easy to degrade peat use in the compost industry compared to the burning is only .005% extremely small peat after all is compressed vegetative product over time and using peat compost is arguably more environmental friendly as it's not over as harmful to the environment as peat peat free to produce chicken and horse manure that is steam or heat treated as well as blood and bone meal need a lot of energy to prevent sickness pass to animals from the raw manure been spread on land it so hard to get a place to produce compost digesters because the fear of water contamination smells the price of homes going down around an area so often producing these materials is taken to third world areas using the little water they have the argument is also the average Gardner when the compost is finished in the pot it is put in the garden you plant captures carbon and stores it in the soil anyway Bunny Gunnis the great garden designer argues this point on peat free Been imported and exported on a large scale The amounts of energy needed to produce these composts The biggest offenders of producing peat is Germany and other environmental friendly countries exporting to holand 80% Holand the world leaders in gardening is moving plant to third world countries cheaper labour regulations not as strict if you bulbs and tubers packets product of holand not produced in holand And peat is still the best retainer of water in seeds and plants Believe me the argument go deep I like to help the environment as I don't use sprays

OK no peat. I think we get it from the Philippines here in the USA. Hard to get Dara/ ammi seeds this year in the USA and pricey. So everyone remember to save seeds.

Is it sustainable to use peat free compost even though it's not locally sourced it's brought into the UK from half way around the world?

In no way is this meant to be antagonistic….. have you tried to produce your own potting compost. You husband may have tried making worm composts and worm casts which IMO is the best ever compost. I don’t have a supplier currently … but when I used it you can keep reusing it , as in ,seedlings potting on, pots etc as the nutrients are longer lasting. You have land enough to do this!??you do need a place to turn it and have the worm beds but I think it could work and fit in with the ethics of your plot.