This makes me so excited for the house plant industry & future, I watched yours and Claires videos. Super informative 🎉 thank you. I'll definitely be buying from Geb & Green 🌱
What surprises me is it appears that the importance and biodiversity of peat bogs must have stopped being taught in schools for a time. I clearly remember being taught, in the 80s, all about the importance of peat bogs and their role in capturing and containing carbon dioxide, and the impact it would have on the atmosphere, watercourses and surrounding areas from over-mining. Yet, my sister who is 10 years my junior, was never taught this at school, and many of the gardeners in their 30s at my local allotments have no idea about it either. So what were they teaching during that period instead? Gardeners went mad on peat mainly for its water retention, cutting down on watering frequency in commercial and private growing facilities. And when peat-free composts started to come out, they weren't a match for peat containing composts, so the switch over to peat-free wasn't as quick as most people would have liked. Thankfully, this has changed for the better, but only in the last few years. It is great to see a commercial grower championing renewable resources, biomass fuel, recycled water, etc, and I do hope others will follow suit quickly. It would be interesting to know of other companies doing this kind of thing. Great job, Emma, on highlighting these issues 👏👏
Fantastic video and very informative. I would love to see more like this. I wonder if there are any growers using more alternative forms of power in their growing process. Maybe geothermal or solar. It would be fascinating to see if anyone is using the massive glass surface area of the greenhouses to generate usable power.
This was great thanks! I always love plant videos with educational value. And it was nice to hear from an expert. Plus for people who live in your area it gives them insight into their local plant scene, which is super cool! I'm planning to make videos like this starting this summer, but for my city, Montreal Canada. ❤
Coco coir is sold at such a great price for the quantity, I’ve been using since the beginning of my plant journey. It’s also a light airy amendment and roots tend to stay a beautiful white in it
That was interesting. I much prefer content with a bit of depth and exploring knowledge and issues related to plants, than just always seeing peoples' collections etc. Nothing wrong with that, but mixing it up keeps it more interesting, especially when you've been growing plants for a while :)
Thank you for helping to raise awareness of peat. I think it´s very important because I assume that most of us love plants and nature in general, and nobody wants to contribute to stuff that causes it serious harm. However, until very recently I had no idea about the peat issue. I do hope that the word will spread and together we can change that - even as buyers we have a power to change, I believe :-) I´d definitely be interested in more content like this :-)
Thanks for this video. One very important thing to pay attention to is that this grower is recycling their coco choir many many times. You should do some research though on how coco choir ("coco peat") is actually produced. As far as I am aware, this substance uses a massive amount of water to produce it!
@@GoodGrowing Their multiple use of coir is “sustainable” but the actual production of coco coir ir not sustainable or environmentally friendly. The process uses huge amounts of water, produces harmful waste products, workers health can be affected, and of course it has to be shipped from asia to western markets which also increases the product’s carbon footprint! So is coir really better than peat? I don’t really know, it’s just another important issue we plant lovers have to deal with. We are often faced with difficult issues such as how much plastic do we use in growing our plants. Yes we love our plastic pots, especially the clear ones, our plastic tools such as scoops, spray bottles, etc., plastic cling wrap, and last but not least prop boxes of all sizes.
@@Carey.S75 But the problem is that you need energy to dry the wood, decaying wood wont burn and burning wood emits more CO2 per unit energy produced than fossile fuels. Using (transparent) solar panels or solar panels on the offices and other buildings and going for electrical energy is better. And soils are being depleted by removing wood from forests, a good soil improver like compost or other organic source can not be replaced, energy from biomass can . A nice thing we do here in the Netherlands is using excess heat from greenhouses to warm other buildings.
Is it cost effective? What I mean is are these plants more expensive because yes money talks but as you've stated costs for basic living are sky rocketing.. Thank you for this eye opening video. 👏👏👏🌿👍
Does anyone know how to check if there is peat moss in your soil mix? I always assumed the one I get is mostly dirt, and dirt is not the same as peat moss, right…? Halp…
This makes me so excited for the house plant industry & future, I watched yours and Claires videos. Super informative 🎉 thank you. I'll definitely be buying from Geb & Green 🌱
right! Geb & Green are setting an amazing example! Hopefully others follow in their footsteps!
What surprises me is it appears that the importance and biodiversity of peat bogs must have stopped being taught in schools for a time. I clearly remember being taught, in the 80s, all about the importance of peat bogs and their role in capturing and containing carbon dioxide, and the impact it would have on the atmosphere, watercourses and surrounding areas from over-mining. Yet, my sister who is 10 years my junior, was never taught this at school, and many of the gardeners in their 30s at my local allotments have no idea about it either. So what were they teaching during that period instead? Gardeners went mad on peat mainly for its water retention, cutting down on watering frequency in commercial and private growing facilities. And when peat-free composts started to come out, they weren't a match for peat containing composts, so the switch over to peat-free wasn't as quick as most people would have liked. Thankfully, this has changed for the better, but only in the last few years. It is great to see a commercial grower championing renewable resources, biomass fuel, recycled water, etc, and I do hope others will follow suit quickly. It would be interesting to know of other companies doing this kind of thing. Great job, Emma, on highlighting these issues 👏👏
I’ve also not learned about peat moss in school (I’m in the end of my twenties)
Fantastic video and very informative. I would love to see more like this. I wonder if there are any growers using more alternative forms of power in their growing process. Maybe geothermal or solar. It would be fascinating to see if anyone is using the massive glass surface area of the greenhouses to generate usable power.
I can defo look more into local, alternative growers & if I find anything/anyone I'll be sure to share more about it!
This was great thanks! I always love plant videos with educational value. And it was nice to hear from an expert. Plus for people who live in your area it gives them insight into their local plant scene, which is super cool! I'm planning to make videos like this starting this summer, but for my city, Montreal Canada. ❤
Yeah I like the info side of things too! Gotta learn new things every day!
Very informative visit to the greenhouse; the plants are awesome. Thanks for taking us along!
Yeah I feel like I learned so much! Always glad to share!
Just wanted to say thank you for answering a couple different questions of mine over the past few weeks! I very much appreciate the information!
Always happy to help 🥰
Very informative video and yes we need all the information we can get on keeping our plants and our earth healthy and happy.!!!❤
Definitely an important conversation the plant community should be having! Thanks for getting this information out there!💚
yes! we should defo be talking about this more!
Coco coir is sold at such a great price for the quantity, I’ve been using since the beginning of my plant journey. It’s also a light airy amendment and roots tend to stay a beautiful white in it
YES! It's an ideal alternative!
Thank you Emma for an informative video.
Very educational video, great job, Emma ❤️
That was interesting. I much prefer content with a bit of depth and exploring knowledge and issues related to plants, than just always seeing peoples' collections etc. Nothing wrong with that, but mixing it up keeps it more interesting, especially when you've been growing plants for a while :)
yeah my thoughts exactly!
Thank you for helping to raise awareness of peat. I think it´s very important because I assume that most of us love plants and nature in general, and nobody wants to contribute to stuff that causes it serious harm. However, until very recently I had no idea about the peat issue. I do hope that the word will spread and together we can change that - even as buyers we have a power to change, I believe :-) I´d definitely be interested in more content like this :-)
Yeah it’s something we can all work on together 🥰 I’ll defo work on making more videos like this chatting with experts 🌿
Thanks for this video. One very important thing to pay attention to is that this grower is recycling their coco choir many many times. You should do some research though on how coco choir ("coco peat") is actually produced. As far as I am aware, this substance uses a massive amount of water to produce it!
Yeah it’s amazing that they’re able to grow in the same medium time after time! Just another sustainable thing they do!
@@GoodGrowing Their multiple use of coir is “sustainable” but the actual production of coco coir ir not sustainable or environmentally friendly. The process uses huge amounts of water, produces harmful waste products, workers health can be affected, and of course it has to be shipped from asia to western markets which also increases the product’s carbon footprint! So is coir really better than peat? I don’t really know, it’s just another important issue we plant lovers have to deal with. We are often faced with difficult issues such as how much plastic do we use in growing our plants. Yes we love our plastic pots, especially the clear ones, our plastic tools such as scoops, spray bottles, etc., plastic cling wrap, and last but not least prop boxes of all sizes.
Very interesting and informative, thank you for this content 😊
Amazing educational content 👏 Thx a lot for this video. I was aware of this but younger generations will certainly benefit
Yeah we defo weren’t taught this kind of stuff in school!
Thank you for this! Now I have the backing and knowledge to explain to my plant friends why we shouldn't use peat.
Always glad to help 😊
I had no idea. Ty.
Anyone able to explain to me how burning wood chips is sustainable? Sounds like it would cause deforestation to me (but I’m not up on all this).
I believe it’s waste chips from the farm they’re by, not just chopped down trees
@@GoodGrowing that would make sense! Thanks :)
@@Carey.S75 would it be an option to make charcoal from it before burning it? It sounds so energy inefficient to burn wood directly.
@@Carey.S75 But the problem is that you need energy to dry the wood, decaying wood wont burn and burning wood emits more CO2 per unit energy produced than fossile fuels. Using (transparent) solar panels or solar panels on the offices and other buildings and going for electrical energy is better. And soils are being depleted by removing wood from forests, a good soil improver like compost or other organic source can not be replaced, energy from biomass can . A nice thing we do here in the Netherlands is using excess heat from greenhouses to warm other buildings.
Loved this!
Interesting. Love your vids.
Is it cost effective? What I mean is are these plants more expensive because yes money talks but as you've stated costs for basic living are sky rocketing.. Thank you for this eye opening video. 👏👏👏🌿👍
No they're actually very competitively priced, which shocked me!
Does anyone know how to check if there is peat moss in your soil mix? I always assumed the one I get is mostly dirt, and dirt is not the same as peat moss, right…? Halp…
most plants are grown in peat these days. So if it doesn't say peat-free, the soil is likely mostly peat. not sure how to test it though
@@GoodGrowing Good to know, thank you
I will buy plant from this amazing greenhouse in a ❤beat because she think and substainability i dont know if i say it right
That is an amazing place. Must have cost them a lot to set that up.
So the glasshouses used to be used for cut flower growing so the infrastructure was already in place 🙌