Appleseed Landscaping - Tips for your garden

Appleseed Landscapes is a social enterprise, providing a community based professional gardening service, also giving training, work experience and personal development opportunities to enable people to overcome individual challenges in the work place through a range of horticultural projects. Appleseed landscapes were very happy to be invited to offer All Season’s service users their expertise.


This season’s gardening tip is very important-

When buying plants for your garden, many vegetable, shrub, and tree seedlings come grown in peat pots, also called peat moss pots.

This is very handy, because these pots can go straight into the soil, which makes it easy to plant large numbers of peat pot plants quickly.

But there is one catch

When planting out a seedling grown in a peat pot, you need to do one very important thing:

Tear off the top edge before planting!

This should be done because you don't want any part of the pot protruding higher than the soil surface.

If you leave the pot exposed to the air, it will dry out and act as wick, pulling moisture up and away from the plant's roots.

In fact, many gardeners, just to make sure the seedling's roots can transition easily into the garden soil, will also break off parts of the sides and bottom of the pots.