Composts & Growing Media
- New Guinea Impatiens Compost
- Poinsettia Compost
- Cyclamen Compost
- Pot Chrysanthemum Compost
- Begonia Compost
Nursery Stock Compost
High air porosity composts providing a choice for a wide range of crops and growing environments
- Alpine and Herbaceous Compost
- Nursery Stock Compost
- Liner Compost
- SHL Container Compost
- SHL Peat Bark Compost
Propagation Compost
A range of composts prepared from fine peat affording a choice of nitrogen contents for precise growth control
- Hardy Ornamental Compost
- Modular Seed Compost
- SHL Seed Sowing Compost
- Blocking Compost
Medium Nutrient Compost
Traditional medium nutrients plant raising composts with a choice of air capacity to suit crop and management requirements. Medium and longer term crops will require supplementary liquid feeding
- Potting & Bedding Compost
- SHL Potting Compost
- Medium Coarse Potting Compost
- Pot Plant Compost
Crop Specific Compost
These composts are generally of lower nutrient content. This provides benefits in both early establishment and a higher degree of plant control with liquid feeding.
- Primula and Pansy Compost
- Bedding (Low N) Compost
- Geranium & Fuchsia Compost
- Plug Plant Compost
- Antirrhinum Compost
- Summer Hanging Basket Compost
Composts are available in 80 litre bags, IBCs, Big Bales and Loose Bulk.
Planting Compost
Tree Start (Peat Free)
- A blend of composted bark and paper pulp.
- Made from renewable resources
Strawberry Module
- A peat/perlite compost of open structure and low nutrient.
- Available in 0.5m, 0.6m, 0.75, 0.9m and 1.0m lengths
Peat Free Compost
Goldengrow Tray & Modular Compost
- Recommended as a propagating compost
- Preferred as a potting compost when adding c.r.f.
Goldengrow Potting & Bedding Compost
- Specially formulated to overcome the nitrogen lock-up inherent in coir based compost
- A reliable compost or raising bedding and pot plants
Goldengrow Growing Medium
- A coir base for the preparation of growing media
- No fertiliser is added and the natural ph is around 6
Compost Additives
SHL Fine, Medium and Ornamental Bark
- Mature pine bark from UK resources
- Widely used in propagation and for improving compost drainage
- Available in three grades 1-7mm, 5-12mm, 12-20mm
Vermiculite
- Available in 3 grades, 1-3mm, 2-5mm, 5-10mm
- In composts it improves aeration and drainage whilst also providing nutrient buffering capacity
- Widely used in propagation as a seed cover
- Inert, sterile and neutral ph
Perlite
- Available in 4 grades,0-2mm, 1-3mm, 2-5mm, 3-6mm
- This expanded volcanic rock is an excellent additive for composts to improve aeration and drainage
- It is inert, sterile and has a neutral ph
Products for Horticultural Organic Systems
Sinclair Organic Composts
Are used for plant raising utilise the same peat types as our comparable conventional composts. Sinclair organic composts have been included in successful trials funded by MAFF – Elm Farm Research Centre, Henry Doubleday Research Association and HRI Kirton
- Low Nutrient Modular
- Standard Nutrient Modular
- Blocking
- Potting & Bedding
Sinclair NU-GRO 8+8+7+TE
Sinclair Nu-Gro is a high performance liquid fertiliser approved by the Soil Association for use in Horticultural Organic Systems, covering a wide range of crops.
- Proven for many years in Australia & New Zealand on fruit, salad crops and vegetables, flowers and amenity turfs
- Produced in a concentrated liquid from for ease of mixing and application
- contains no mammalian meat or bonemeal
- ideal to take plants through stress conditions being particularly effective and safe as a foliar feed
- can be used as the sole supplementary nutrient source in Organic Systems or can be used in conjunction with a conventional fertiliser programme to enhance healthy quality
Cultilene
A world leader in substrate supply. Propagating cubes, growing blocks and slabs. Exact, Basic and Premium provide all the grades necessary to give you the range to grow any crop.