Dalefoot Compost DAL01 Wool Compost, 10.0 cm*65.0 cm*45.0 cm

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You may also want to pair this with some extra natural protection such as our Jute Mulch Mats, Felt Shillies or Wool Gardening Felt. Social Association approved – the compost is sustainably made from renewable, natural ingredients on Dalefoot Farm in the Lake District and is approved for organic growing by the Soil Association. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. With gardening gloves on, loosely fill clean seed trays or pots with compost for seeds and gently tamp the mixture down. Includes bracken – bracken is FULL of potash (potassium) which is essential for fruiting and flowering.

This 100% peat free wool compost contains a mixture of sheep’s wool and bracken with high natural potash for great results every time. It is now added to the compost to boost the microbial diversity, increase trace minerals and boost the overall efficiency of the final product.Wool features a high natural level of potassium (potash) which is a major nutrient for any plants including fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Then, gently water the top of the compost with a spray bottle or watering can fitted with a fine rose. Sticking our head in the sand is no longer an option, this has consequences for everyone and everything. The ideas for the range of composts comes from old gardening books and are all made on a small Lakeland hill farm, near Penrith, Cumbria. In fact, this is as much part of our business as the products we sell and is an integral part of our ethos.

As the proteins in wool breaks down, nitrogen is gradually released, acting as a slow release fertiliser which feeds them throughout the growing season and keeps your plants fruiting and flowering. Come the spring, I was quite certain that my lovely dahlias would have bitten the dust, so I was more than overjoyed when little green shoots started appearing. The gathering of flocks has become very difficult through waist high bracken stands and this very aggressive plant competes with other native vegetation to the extent that other plants fail and available grazing is reduced.I have to admit that I have not always been satisfied with peat-free composts although I know that it makes sense to switch, so I was keen to try Dalefoot for myself and see how it performed. Wool compost™ is farm-made on a traditional hill farm, Dalefoot, in the small valley of Heltondale in the Lake District National Park. Wool Compost component bracken gives this growing medium a high level of natural potash, essential for fruiting and flowering.

Once the use of peatlands are phased out, which is inevitable, this source of habitat will never be replenished in our lifetimes. What I like about using Dalefoot is that the compost is made from totally renewable resources which obviously has environmental benefits. Bracken provides naturally high levels of potash, essential for fruiting and flowering and significant levels of iron and magnesium to nourish strong healthy plants.A sustainable alternative to peat, which helps towards meeting the UK's target to withdraw all peat use by amateur gardeners to zero by 2024.