![]() |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Lastly, the pots are trimmed by hand. |
![]() |
|
The pots remain sturdy above ground for around 12 - 14 months, but quickly biodegrade within 2 - 3 months when planted out. |
![]() |
|||
![]() |
|||
|
The coir material allows air and water to move through the pot while containing soil, and the plants do not have to be pulled from the pot at planting time. Plants grown in coir in the greenhouse have better root structures than those in plastic pots. Air pruning of the roots occurs once they grow through the walls of the pot, therefore other smaller roots develop as well. There is no root twirling, no root bound plants, no need to manipulate the root ball before planting, and certainly no root shock. Once the pot is planted in the ground, air pruned roots rapidly regenerate, and robust root growth has been seen after just 10 days. |
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
All with the help of the people of Sri Lanka. |
![]() |
![]() |
||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Help put something back by using sustainable, biodegradable, organic methods - just growing naturally. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Why we shouldnt use peat? |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Do you know peat wetlands are not only wonderful reservoirs of wildlife, but fragilely hold huge amounts of carbon from escaping into the atmosphere [one third of the world’s soil carbon]. How about stopping removing natural flood defences, stopping removing the purest natural filter for our ever more scarce water resources, stopping removing a unique, fascinating archive of the earth’s history - and ours. Need any more reasons to stop using peat ? Well it takes thousands of years to replace - if we have not irreparably damaged the water table ! Only about 5% of our lowland peat bogs remain untouched - and the government has introduced very tough regulations regarding further extraction in this country. So why Coir - why back to a material the Victorians used by the shipload ? Because it’s natural, sustainable and biodegradable. It grows , using it helps the environment - not despoil it. Good old natures natural cycle again - a cycle of everlasting re-growth
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
Wildforms, Keepers Cottage, Glenstockadale, Leswalt, Stranraer, Wigtownshire, DG9 0LU |