Thank you so much for your interest in our products following the Back to the Land TV Programme with Kate Humble. It is now added to the compost to boost the microbial diversity, increase trace minerals and boost the overall efficiency of the final product. Lancaster's Gardencare is a separate company and we refer landscaping enquiries to them as a free service. So, as you can see, peat is very important to protect, and as consumers, we can help to protect it by choosing peat-free gardening products.

Contains added comfrey (Bocking 14 strain), an organic source of nutrients with high levels of potassium, phosphorous nitrogen for healthy plant growth, larger flowers and bigger crops. Wool features a high natural level of potassium (potash) which is a major nutrient for any plants including fruit, vegetables, and flowers.

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. You can use it just like any other seed compost, loosely filling pots or trays and placing your efforts in a greenhouse, propagator or warm windowsill. 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. This excludes the Scottish Highlands (north of Inverness), Northern Ireland and all offshore islands. 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.

Dalefoot are refining their compost mix all the time and now have a number of varieties suitable for a range of growing uses. This is something more and more of us in the UK (and globally) are suffering with due to the effects of global warming, and it is being made worse by the reduction of peat in our environment. Acts as a vital historic record of the land - peat contains vital and unique historical evidence of an area and its inhabitants. The rich source of humus with a wide range of trace elements, ensured the meadows and pastures got off to a good growing season.Helps with water management – peat plays an important role in the hydrological cycle helping to maintain water quantity and quality. Contains wool – like some of our other gardening products such as our garden felt and shillies, this compost contains WOOL! Their Whitefaced Woodland and Cheviot sheep flocks run up the bracken covered fells to Loadpot where they live and rear their lambs and graze side by side with our herd of native Fell ponies. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. It can hold up to 20 times its own weight in water and according to the ONS, in the UK alone, peatland represents 27% of the UK ecosystem service accounts.

Includes bracken – bracken is FULL of potash (potassium) which is essential for fruiting and flowering. Using old gardening recipes they have worked to develop a range of wholesome composts that are farm-made and do what they promise. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Wool compost™ is farm-made on a traditional hill farm, Dalefoot, in the small valley of Heltondale in the Lake District National Park. Traditionally, bracken has been used as an animal winter bedding material in the Lakes, which was then spread on the land in spring to fertilise the fields.Dalefoot Wool Compost feeds throughout the growing season, is free draining so plants will not become waterlogged and can be used to grow flowers, fruit, vegetables and trees. Wool Compost component bracken gives this growing medium a high level of natural potash, essential for fruiting and flowering.

For years there have been warnings about climate change, on what we need to do to protect and sustain this precious planet. No other growing media has such a high concentration of naturally derived nutrients for improved plant size and quality. Many growers and producers of plants are now using this compost as an alternative to peat, with excellent results, so we promise, your garden will still be blooming beautiful when you make the switch. No need to feed – due to all the wonderful ingredients of the compost we mentioned above, you don’t need to add any extra feed to this compost or any water-retaining gels either. Peat, as defined by the International Peatland Society, is “Peat is the surface organic layer of a soil that consists of partially decomposed organic matter, derived mostly from plant material, which has accumulated under conditions of waterlogging, oxygen deficiency, high acidity and nutrient deficiency”.Traditionally, here in the Lake District, bracken has been used as an animal winter bedding material, which was then spread on the land in Spring to fertilise the fields. It can hold up to 20 times its own weight in water and according to the ONS, in the UK alone, peatland represents 27% of the UK ecosystem service accounts.