{"id":658,"date":"2021-11-02T09:06:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T08:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/?p=658"},"modified":"2021-11-10T16:19:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:19:25","slug":"coco-coir-compost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/coco-coir-compost\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco &#038; Coir compost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/11\/0504679-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/11\/0504679-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/11\/0504679-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/11\/0504679-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/11\/0504679-1-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/11\/0504679-1-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/11\/0504679-1-520x520.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Coco compost block<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Putting aside Coco &amp; Coir compost are very eco friendly and provide a great alternative to peat on a GardenAdvice test a couple of years ago we found that Coco compost out performed all other composts including our often recommended John Innes soil based compost for seed sowing especially vegetables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coco &amp; Coir produce peat that\u2019s made from the husk of a coconut, after the fibres from the coconut shell have been removed. Dealing with coconut shells is quite a process \u2013 thankfully, this post here goes into much detail about how the the shells get turned into something that you can use in the garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coco peat is considered sustainable because coconuts themselves are renewable and can be farmed in abundance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With pH levels ranging closer to the neutral scale, rather than acidic like peat, you can in a manner of saying, plug and play. Simply plant your seeds and watch them grow, with no need to add lime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One your seedling start to grow and reach around 15mm its best to start feeding once every two week with a week mix of liquid tomato feed as Coco &amp; Coir compost do not normally contain any nutrients<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilko.com\/en-uk\/wilko-coco-potting-compost-10l\/p\/0504679\">https:\/\/www.wilko.com\/en-uk\/wilko-coco-potting-compost-10l\/p\/0504679<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting aside Coco &amp; Coir compost are very eco friendly and provide a great alternative to peat on a GardenAdvice test a couple of years ago we found that Coco compost out performed all&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/tomsgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}