In Partnership with Nubeck Nursery a garden is to be developed within the nursery grounds which when complete will be used to trial and test the following:-
New Plant Varieties and colours
Innovative planting designs requested by customers
Plants grown in peat free compost
In addition the garden will be used for training and hopefully as a study area for use by schools
Currently one of the nurseries targets is to locate a suitable peat reduced compost in which to grow our plant requirements that maintains both the plant quality and uniformity . A trial was carried out using a selection of summer bedding using a peat reduced compost,the compost trialled is peat reduced by 10% using shredded bark as a substitute for peat. The results were very positive and did produce a high quality plant although lacked in uniformity.
