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23 November 2023
Reducing fertilisers
Eliminating peat from propagation using growing media blocks
This new field lab started in November 2023 and runs for one year. It builds on previous work funded by Innovative Farmers and The Pebble Trust to develop a peat-free growing medium suitable for producing propagation blocks for vegetable and salad transplants. The project involves three growers, based in Fife, Perthshire and Moray, with research support from SRUC (Dr Robin Walker) and project man…
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