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RE: In praise of peat plates.
If you are talking about the little discs which are soaked and rise up to
make a
very good seed starter "pot" then I still use them for growing plants and
see
them all the time with the little seed starter kits at the local garden
centers
and plant nurseries.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-killietalk at aka_org [mailto:owner-killietalk at aka_org]On
Behalf Of George Slusarczuk
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 11:26 AM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: Re: In praise of peat plates.
Hello,
Some time ago I seem to remember that someone offered Jiffy Peat discs
for sale. Are they still available? Where?
Best,
George
Guy Wren wrote:
>
> Hi Wright,
> I've been told that some garden centres over here do them but I
haven't
> found one yet, but I'll give 'em a go if I do.
> Cheers,
> Guy.
>
> > Over here, we have a product called Jiffy Peat Pellets that are very
> > economical compared to the peat plates. Each pellet expands to be about
a
> > cup of wet peat, when microwaved to boiling, and costs something like
> > US$0.10-0.15 each in small quantity. They too are stick free, and
provide a
> > lot of fine stuff if you are doing small *Fundulopanchax* that like a
lot of
> > that. I rinse most of the fines out in a fishnet for my true annuals, so
it
> > stirs up less when they get overactive. For Fp. like FIL I just use a
> > brine-shrimp net.
> >
> > Removing the plastic mesh *before* boiling saves burned fingers, I
found.
> > ;-)
> >
> > Wright
> >
> > --
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com
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