Give home-grown fruit and vegetable plants triple the goodness with this peat-free formulation. New Horizon is a suitable blend of loam, coir and added ingredients to make up a compost with great moisture-holding and aerating properties. New Horizon Composts are naturally peat-free formulation that gives every plant triple the goodness. This peat-free formulation is ideal for all types of plants and can also feed your plants for up to 6 weeks. Our unique wood fibre West+ creates the optimum structure and air spaces in the compost. Hence it delivers the very best root growth possible. Work out the correct spacing for your plants and position them in their planting position so that you can make sure that you are happy before they are planted. So, I've been trying out the vegetable compost to see what it's like. It's not clear, but I presumed that it is a bit heavier on the nutrients than the other products.

I have been using J Arthur Bowers New Horizon compost range since it first appeared. It is organic and peat free, based largely on composted wood waste. I have managed to grow everything I need in it fairly successfully and it is my first choice having tried, as far as I know, all available peat-free organic composts. No, there aren't very many So, this season, J Arthur Bowers have altered and expanded the range. Until this year we were offered garden compost, a growing bag and a general purpose compost (the latter was the one I used). There was also a brief appearance of a coir-based product which has not been continued. Until now gardeners had to choose between being the best gardeners they could using a peat based compost or being eco-friendly using an inferior peat free offering. But now gardeners have no need to compromise any longer with New Horizon Peat Free Compost, from Westland. New Horizon is a naturally peat-free formulation. It is specially created to be the perfect compost for all plants by providing triple the goodness. Boost All Purpose Liquid Plant Food is specially formulated for use with peat reduced, peat free and ericaceous composts, delivery 4x more blooms**, more fruits and vegetables!If you'd like more than 10 bags of compost please call our Customer Service team who can arrange for a bespoke competitive quote on 01480 774555 (standard network charges apply) New for 2008 is a vegetable planter and a vegetable compost which appear to be a mixture of wood and coir, as far as I can tell. The growing bag has been re-named, I think, as a tomato growing bag. Three months on and I am harvesting my first produce - spring onions, cabbage and lettuce so far. No difference in the quality crop that I can tell. If you’re looking to grow vegetables in a container or pot, make sure you choose one large enough for the plants once fully grown, so that they won’t become over-crowded.

New Horizon is the next generation of growing media with growing performance, effectively competing with peat-based products. Therefore offering a truly high-quality and also sustainable peat-free alternative. It's nice and clean, and has a manure-like smell which the New Horizon growing bags used to have. It immediately felt lighter to me - because of the coir, I guess. I've been using it in the same way as before, neat for small pots and mixed with garden compost for larger ones. (I sow seeds in a proprietary seed compost from Nature's Own). I will soon be planting up one of the vegetable planters with cucumbers, so I'll see how that goes too.There’s no container necessary for this step-by-step guide on how to grow potatoes, as you can sow them directly into the compost bag! New Horizon All Vegetable Compost is fantastic for growing potatoes and it’s 100% sustainable, natural and peat-free. It’s specially blended for all types of vegetables and feeds for up to 6 weeks. Both the planet and your plants will thank you! Our unique granules in BIO3 absorbs and stores as well as releases moisture into the compost. This results in the optimum water management for the plant, and thus the biggest and best blooms possible. Learning how to grow vegetables is one of the most rewarding things you can do. Nothing compares to serving up your own spuds with a Sunday Roast or adding those carefully tended carrots to a soup or stew. Find out how to grow, with the help of our peat-free New Horizon compost, which is kind to your plants as well as the planet. Once your vegetable seedlings are ready for planting out or potting on, New Horizon All Vegetable Compost makes the perfect partner. It’s a naturally peat-free formulation that gives your vegetables triple the goodness. It has the perfect blend of Biofibre, West+ and Coir+ to give fruits and vegetables every reason to thrive. You can also combine this compost with top soil to create raised beds or a vegetable patch. We know how important your garden is to you. We've listened to our customers and introduced a new improved speedy delivery service, meaning Express deliverycomes as standard.

Dig a hole twice the depth and diameter of the roots. Place your plant in the hole, fill any gaps with compost and then water. BIO3 is Westland’s next generation peat replacement technology. Our peat free New Horizon Compost is made up of the BIO3 formulation specifically engineered to out perform all peat-based blends. What is BIO3? 1.Open Structure Tap your plant from your old pot, shake off loose compost and place into your new pot. Fill any gaps and then water. Get the most from New Horizon West+ creates the optimum structure and air spaces in the compost to deliver the very best root growth. Take each plant out of its pot and position it in a prepared hole, making sure that the top of the roots is just below the level of the surrounding soil.A perfect blend of Biofibre, West+ formulation and Coir+ to stimulate instant plant energy, let roots and leaves thrive and sustain nutrients for longer Hold seedlings carefully to avoid damage and gently tease the roots from the compost. Space seedlings out and remember to water regularly.

I am well aware that I could easily be watering less, and the weather is different, so do take that into account - I can't provide a controlled experiment! New Horizon All Vegetable Compost can be used all year round from January to December. We recommend using the product in a well-ventilated place and avoid breathing in dust. Always wear gloves when gardening and wash hands after use.