Levington PEAT FREE Multipurpose Compost, 40 Litres

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The best compost will provide all the nutrients and support needed for seeds and veg to grow and thrive, while the worst will leave you with meagre crops and feeble plants. Its unique formulation with grit and phosphate provides the perfect combination for strong and healthy roots. Depending on what you’re planting – seeds, houseplants, vegetables, roses or cacti – there are different types of compost that are best suited. Storing Levington John Innes Seed Compost from one year to another may result in the fertiliser ratios becoming unbalanced. As soon as the growth of your plants slows down, start to give them a liquid feed, including seedlings and small young plants.

Watch out for reformulated compost - manufacturers frequently change the mix of ingredients they use and the fertiliser, and this is speeding up as the ban on using peat comes ever closer.

Seed compost is designed to provide the low levels of nutrients needed at the early stages of a plant’s life and can contain additional ingredients that aid germination. Composts that are too fine are prone to water logging, while those that are too coarse tend to need more frequent watering.

Introducing ICL Professional Horticulture’s Levington Advance Solutions (LAS) – Your Path to Sustainable Growth and high-quality plants throughout the growing season. Remember that most composts only have enough fertiliser to last around four weeks, so after this you will need to add liquid feed or one of our Best controlled-release fertilisers .Multipurpose compost is your best bet for already established plants, although it can be just as beneficial for seed germination and small seedlings, too. Levington Advance Alpine, Herbaceous and Cyclamen is a peat reduced growing media product designed to provide a good open well drained structure with low base fertiliser levels. There have been also some issues with compost bricks not expanding to the full amount described, but it seems to be related to the water temperature used –just make sure it’s lukewarm or warmer.