Anyway I've just bought a 120ltr bag of Verve Multi Purpose Compost and was unaware, until I'd got it home and opened it, that it only contains 58% peat
![Embarassed :oops:](./images/smilies/icon_redface.gif)
Anyway as the new bag smells and feels really good, plus the fact that it feels ethically correct to use less peat, I've decided to use it to prick out all my Tomatoes and Chilli Peppers
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
I still have more seeds to sow indoors, so am looking to get a small bag of compost with a higher peat content and run some form of comparison test between it and the Verve I have left; again I'll let you know how I get on.
Interestingly last month I bought a bag of B&Q's Verve Peat Free Compost, and trialled it against last year's B&Q Peat compost by sowing this year's tomatoes in a heated propagator. Both sets of tomatoes germinated, slightly more in the peat based compost, but the peat free plants grew quicker!
I also sowed some cress seeds and the results, after two weeks, can be seen below; peat free on the right. For me the peat free dries out too quickly on the surface (which may account for the slow growth of the cress) and also makes it difficult to judge when to water new seedlings.
In a nutshell, I have 110ltrs of the Verve 58% Peat Multi Purpose compost left, plus about 35ltrs of Peat Free, so I'm committed to a reduction in peat one way or another
![Evil or Very Mad :evil:](./images/smilies/icon_evil.gif)