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

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Sheep’s wool ensures good water retention due to its natural hydroscopic properties and naturally high levels of nitrogen. This excludes the Scottish Highlands (north of Inverness), Northern Ireland and all offshore islands. The feel of the compost felt strange to me and I was very unsure how all this was going to work – sheeps’ wool and bracken seemed to me to be a rather strange combination to put on my flower beds! Soil Association approvedDalefoot’s Wool Compost for Seeds has a fine texture with good drainage to provide a perfect start for seeds.

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.Dalefoot Wool Compost Double Strength 50ltr Bag offers a rich peat-free compost plus soil conditioner produced from bracken and sheep's wool. Thank you so much for your interest in our products following the Back to the Land TV Programme with Kate Humble. Dalefoot Composts are a unique range of environmentally friendly peat free composts produced in the Lake District.

Completely peat-free – this compost is 100% peat-free which means it has great environmental benefits (you can read more about that below! Made from totally renewable resources with great environmental benefit to help you garden more sustainable. With gardening gloves on, loosely fill clean seed trays or pots with compost for seeds and gently tamp the mixture down. The trees we plant reduce CO2 output as well as contribute to the reduction of flooding and the creation of habitats for wildlife. Sheep wool was once a major product of the Lake District area but is no longer in demand and because the sheep need it to be shawn every year it is not almost just a waste product.One hundred per cent natural and British, produced on a traditional hill farm in the Lake District National Park.

This project is supported by the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) for which Defra is the Managing Authority, part funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe investing in rural areas. Double strength wool compost can stun s way it wil not stun the plants with nutrientsof a high fertiliser strength so may need to be diluted with homemade or spent compost to a ratio of 50:50. To say the dahlias’ that year looked as though they were on steroids would be an understatement but perform they did. From 2024, the sale of peat for use on private gardens and allotments will be banned in England There will also be a final voluntary phase-out target of 2030 for professional growers of fruit, vegetables and plants. Sticking our head in the sand is no longer an option, this has consequences for everyone and everything.They support species such as carnivorous sundew plants and uncommon insects like large heath butterflies, four-spotted chaser dragonflies and picture-winged bog craneflies. It is a fantastic fertiliser and is a healing herb so offers seedlings a fantastic rehabilitative nutrient boost. the organic gardeners best friend a ‘dynamic accumulator’ packed with nutrients is added into the Wool Compost range. Go peat-free with this Dalefoot Peat-Free Wool Compost is the compost of all composts made here in Cumbria. I first came across Dalefoot Compost at RHS Chelsea in 2015 and felt rather ashamed that despite living in the Lake District I had very little knowledge of the company or their products.