Here at Nutley’s, we cherry pick the very best products to help you get the most from your green space, and nothing makes it into our range unless it’s known to be useful, fit for purpose and of excellent quality. Wool features a high natural level of potassium (potash) which is a major nutrient for any plants including fruit, vegetables, and flowers. I have planted up one pot but intend to get some identical plants and 2 planters to try a comparison with 'ordinary' compost. Sticking our head in the sand is no longer an option, this has consequences for everyone and everything. Over the last century, the International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates 80% of the UK’s peatlands are in a damaged and deteriorating condition having been modified as a result of present and past land management activities, including extraction for horticulture and draining for agricultural improvement.

Sheep's wool contains high level of nitrogen that operates as a slow release fertiliser with extremely good water retention. This excellent wool and bracken compost, fresh from the hills of the Lake District National Park, offer a superb alternative fertiliser and growing medium for all gardeners.No extra feeding of fertilisers needed as the compost contains all the nutrients needed for the entire growing season. It brings a good balance to the bracken, adding diverse microbes that would not be present otherwise and help to replicate the natural ecological biome from where it comes. Many growers and producers of plants are now using this compost as an alternative to peat, with excellent results, so we promise, your garden will still be blooming beautiful when you make the switch. Potash-rich bracken forms the base of the compost, which is blended with sheep’s wool for improved water retention and slow release nitrogen.

These have seen dwindling numbers due to the decrease in wet peatland areas which has a wider impact on our ecosystem. For every purchase you make with us, 20% of the profit facilitates the planting of trees on agriculturally poor land in Cumbria. The wool is also full of slow-releasing nitrogen which, as we already know, is really important for strong plant growth. A sustainable alternative to peat, which helps towards meeting the UK's target to withdraw all peat use by amateur gardeners to zero by 2024. This excludes the Scottish Highlands (north of Inverness), Northern Ireland and all offshore islands.

So, as you can see, peat is very important to protect, and as consumers, we can help to protect it by choosing peat-free gardening products.