Is commercially made compost tested for chemical residue?

[Kidds]

I note though that the nurseries I personally know of, still use peat, but it is only available in tonne bags

Garden Peat | Cloverpete

www.cloverpeat.co.uk

I use their multipurpose compost for most things and usually buy a pallet at a time but 3 for a tenner in the garden centres. Not many garden centres I visit don't sell peat by the bag.

 

[delilah]

Our local organic market garden use something called Moorland Gold, if i've got it right it is the peat that is filtered out of drinking water at reservoirs, rather than dug out of the ground, so it's guilt free peat, clever.

 

[ollie989898]

I would think that using peat these days was a non-starter because it's not sustainable and pretty sore on the environment surely?

 

[DRC]

Get hold of some digestate .
don’t need much of it mind , as it’s like rocket fuel.

 

[Yale]

Get hold of some digestate .
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @Farmer Roy .

 

[DRC]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @Farmer Roy .

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[Yale]

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If he’s gone to bed you’ll have to wait......to be edujumicated......

 

[Yale]

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Here‘s a taster....

Is it safe to grow your own food inside tyres?

Many allotment sites have already banned the use of tyres but I see the odd few being used at our allotments. Typically they’re weighing down thick black plastic sheeting over winter to stop weeds growing and to warm the soil earlier in the spring. Occasionally tyres are being used as planters...

www.growlikegrandad.co.uk

 

[DRC]

Here‘s a taster....

Is it safe to grow your own food inside tyres?

Many allotment sites have already banned the use of tyres but I see the odd few being used at our allotments. Typically they’re weighing down thick black plastic sheeting over winter to stop weeds growing and to warm the soil earlier in the spring. Occasionally tyres are being used as planters...

www.growlikegrandad.co.uk

We’re having a poly tunnel soon, so the tyres will be back on the silage pit

 

[neilo]

Here‘s a taster....

Is it safe to grow your own food inside tyres?

Many allotment sites have already banned the use of tyres but I see the odd few being used at our allotments. Typically they’re weighing down thick black plastic sheeting over winter to stop weeds growing and to warm the soil earlier in the spring. Occasionally tyres are being used as planters...

www.growlikegrandad.co.uk

That makes for scary reading. He appears to put tyres into a similar carcinogenic risk category to Roundup......

If one were to break down and analyse plastic plant pots, I wonder if you would find any horrible, nasty chemicals? Hey, we could make up a scare story out of that too then.?

 

[DRC]

That makes for scary reading. He appears to put tyres into a similar carcinogenic risk category to Roundup......

If one were to break down and analyse plastic plant pots, I wonder if you would find any horrible, nasty chemicals? Hey, we could make up a scare story out of that too then.?

I was thinking that myself about the Roundup.

 

[Grassman]

That makes for scary reading. He appears to put tyres into a similar carcinogenic risk category to Roundup......

If one were to break down and analyse plastic plant pots, I wonder if you would find any horrible, nasty chemicals? Hey, we could make up a scare story out of that too then.?

Don't worry about growing plants in old tyres.
Just think how many millions of kilograms yearly get washed down the drains off the roads in a superfine dust which then fills the rivers and then the sea. All the food chain will eat a bit