Suzie. This survey is invaluable and supports my frustrating experience last year using both Dalefoots and Melcourt, which I felt with them being at the top end of the market cost wise would ensure success … sadly not. Your mix must be working (appreciate the conclusion) as your plugs that I have received from you both last year and his year have been grown on by me in Melcourts multi-purpose to become compact, healthy plants to stand half a chance against the slugs! Lovely to support you here.
Thanks Suzie. Really helpful. I used Levingtons which had great germination results for me and I thought Wey hey! Then they stopped growing! A real disappointment. I’ve sown seed direct in order to compensate for lack of plants, this means that I don’t have as many blooms as I wished for at the first half of the season. I’ll probably have blooms in July! A bit of a blow xx
Thanks so much for sharing this Suzie. I just wanted to add Silvagrow to the past free mix discussion. I think it’s brilliant compost and worth the extra £. Having had a poor year for seed germination last year I’ve used Silvagrow for everything this year and there’s a marked improvement in germination and sturdiness of seedlings. 100% give it a go
Hi Claudia, Melcourt, the manufacturer that makes Sylva grow, was included in the trial, I was using thier seed mix. I have used Sylva Grow previously I used to have good results with it but over the past few years I and many others have sadly found it to be inconsistent. Im pleased you have experienced good germination with it.
Thanks Suzie, so sorry I hadn’t realised that Sylvagrow wasn’t the brand. Also I rarely see it being sold locally so I thought it was a hidden gem! Usually I have just picked up whichever peat free compost was on offer so have been used to it being very inconsistent in quality, so probably Sylvagrow shone out by comparison.
Thanks Suzie, really interesting reading. I've always used melcourt but found it extremely variable so this year have tried a few others (it's great to have some choice after years of few peat free offerings). I was pleasantly surprised by the Lidl compost in the one bag I tried but I don't know how variable it is. I'll look out for the bulrush compost.
Suzie. This survey is invaluable and supports my frustrating experience last year using both Dalefoots and Melcourt, which I felt with them being at the top end of the market cost wise would ensure success … sadly not. Your mix must be working (appreciate the conclusion) as your plugs that I have received from you both last year and his year have been grown on by me in Melcourts multi-purpose to become compact, healthy plants to stand half a chance against the slugs! Lovely to support you here.
Thanks Suzie. Really helpful. I used Levingtons which had great germination results for me and I thought Wey hey! Then they stopped growing! A real disappointment. I’ve sown seed direct in order to compensate for lack of plants, this means that I don’t have as many blooms as I wished for at the first half of the season. I’ll probably have blooms in July! A bit of a blow xx
Thanks so much for sharing this Suzie. I just wanted to add Silvagrow to the past free mix discussion. I think it’s brilliant compost and worth the extra £. Having had a poor year for seed germination last year I’ve used Silvagrow for everything this year and there’s a marked improvement in germination and sturdiness of seedlings. 100% give it a go
Hi Claudia, Melcourt, the manufacturer that makes Sylva grow, was included in the trial, I was using thier seed mix. I have used Sylva Grow previously I used to have good results with it but over the past few years I and many others have sadly found it to be inconsistent. Im pleased you have experienced good germination with it.
Thanks Suzie, so sorry I hadn’t realised that Sylvagrow wasn’t the brand. Also I rarely see it being sold locally so I thought it was a hidden gem! Usually I have just picked up whichever peat free compost was on offer so have been used to it being very inconsistent in quality, so probably Sylvagrow shone out by comparison.
Thank you so much for all the trials and feedback
Thanks Suzie, really interesting reading. I've always used melcourt but found it extremely variable so this year have tried a few others (it's great to have some choice after years of few peat free offerings). I was pleasantly surprised by the Lidl compost in the one bag I tried but I don't know how variable it is. I'll look out for the bulrush compost.