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The horticultural industry is working together to create responsibly sourced composts and soil mixes which lower potential impact on the environment

The Responsible Sourcing Scheme for Growing Media has been developed by the Growing Media Association under the auspices of the Horticultural Trades Association and in collaboration with leading retailers, Defra and NGO’s.It assesses the impact of each raw material that accounts for more than 5% of the volume of the mix against seven criteria. Learn More

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Levington Tomorite Peat Free Organic Planter

New Tomorite®, the country’s favourite planter, now ORGANIC, for delicious tasting tomatoes and bountiful crop. Tomatoes under glass: Start feeding when the fruit on first truss is pea sized. Tomatoes outdoor: Start feeding when the fruit on second truss is pea sized. Peppers and aubergines: Start feeding when the fruit is the size of a golf ball. Melons: Start feeding when the first fruit is swelling. Courgette, marrows and cucumbers: Start feeding when Picking commences.

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Westland Container & Basket Planting Mix

A specially blended peat free container and basket planting mix enriched with water retaining granules to support vibrant, healthy plants that flower all season long.

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Levington Multi Purpose Compost

For all your gardening uses and for all stages of a plants life. Levington Multi Purpose Compost contains essential plant food for 6 weeks, to give your plants a great start. Ideal for all your gardening uses. Perfect for all stages of plant life, including seed sowing.

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Essentials by Levington Top Soil

A sustainable, fertile loam-based soil rich in nutrients that supports growth for flowers and fruits. Perfect for new beds and borders, replacing old soil, levelling lawns and making compost. Works well for young plants and grown plants. Great for beds and borders, replacing sick soil, levelling lawns and making compost.

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Melcourt All-Purpose Peat-Free Compost

Good quality, 100% peat-free compost suitable for a wide range of garden applications including potting and planting out. Suitable for use by vegans. Available in 40 litre bags and 0.6m3 bulk bags

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Miracle-Gro Plant & Grow

No more backache from lifting heavy bags of compost with Miracle-Gro Plant & Grow lightweight compost. Light in weight but not in quality, this mighty compost will feed your plants for up to 6 months and help retain up to 25% more moisture! Use on any plant, indoor or outdoor straight on the soil.

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Levington Rose, Tree & Shrub Compost

Levington® Rose, Tree & Shrub Compost has a special combination of nutrients and water retaining agents that enable the fast rooting of roses, trees and shrubs. Rose, tree and shrub compost is ideal for Shrubs, Trees, Roses, Hedging Fruit Bushes, including ericaceous plants (acid loving, lime hating plants). Planting bare root outdoor roses, trees, shrubs, moving or planting established and container plants.

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John Innes No.3 Compost

Our John Innes No.3 Peat Free compost is made from the 50 year old recipe of loam and horticultural grit combined with bark fines and COIR. Our formula provides mature plants with a stockpile of nutrients for potting on and final potting of mature plants into large containers or pots. Our John Innes No.3 Peat Free helps to promote strong root development, healthy growth and maintenance of plants along with a long lasting moisture retention feature that will help to reduce the need for watering and prevent drying out. The unique properties of this compost is free draining and helps to prevent the roots becoming waterlogged and keeps porosity to allow plants to respire. The compost is specially formulated to act as an anchor for roots of mature plants with its heavier composition of other composts.

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Miracle-Gro Peat Free Premium Mediterranean & Citrus

A peat-free compost specially formulated for Mediterranean types of plant such as bougainvillea, palm trees, orange trees, lemon trees and lime trees. Perfect for use in pots, containers and hanging baskets.

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New Horizon Tomato Planter

New Horizon Tomato Planter is a naturally peat free formulation that gives your tomatoes triple the goodness. The planter has the perfect blend of Biofibre as well as West+ and Coir+ for the best yield of tomatoes.

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SylvaGrow Multi-Purpose

A superb quality, 100% peat-free compost based on blends used by professionals for more than two decades. Suitable for a wide range of garden applications including seed sowing, raising cuttings, potting- on and planting out. Suitable for use by vegans. Available in 40 litre and 15 litre bags.

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John Innes No.1 Compost

Our John Innes No.1 Peat Free compost is made from the 50 year old recipe of loam and horticultural grit combined with bark fines and COIR. It has a peat free formula but the addition of loam gives the young plants a base suited for young plant root development and to allow for the changing nutritional requirements of a growing plant. Whilst our John Innes No.1 Peat Free compost is suitable for a wide range of species, some modifications are required for some specialized plants. For example, calcifuge plants such as Ericas and Rhododendrons should be grown in our John Innes Ericaceous Peat Free compost.

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