May 22, 2018 | Growing With Coir
Coco Coir – Yet Another Gift From the Coconut Palm “Coir” is a soil type growing media that comes from coconuts, specifically the husk. The story of coir and how it was discovered as a growing media dates back to 1940 when a soil scientist, EP Hume, noted...
Jun 6, 2017 | Coir Products, Growing With Coir, The Greenhouse, Uncategorized
How Do Your Cucumbers Grow? In Coir, Of Course! It’s certainly a known fact, that coco coir is a successful substrate for many crops and cucumbers are one of them. What you may not know is that cucumbers originate in India. Maybe they’ve been growing in...
Jun 16, 2015 | Growing With Coir
Tom March admits it right out loud..” I hate weeds!” So instead of bathing his crop rows with with herbicides on his 150 acre March Farm in Bethlehem Ct, he’s beaten weeds by laying weed barrier and growing his crops in grow bags. While it’s...
Apr 6, 2015 | Agro Innovations, Growing With Coir, The Greenhouse
In 2005 when citrus greening was discovered in orange trees in south Florida, the insidious little carrier bug, the Asian citrus psyllid, was already making its way through the state infecting and killing thousands of acres (127,000+) of citrus trees. Growers,...
Feb 27, 2015 | Growing With Coir
Maria Slavik from the gardening blog site Sweet Domesticity, has made the switch to coco coir peat for seed starting. Her original motivation to give it try came through her desire to use a sustainable product. For many years sphagnum peat was the common choice by...
Feb 12, 2015 | Growing With Coir
Every day, growers discover why coconut coir peat has become the substrate of choice with so many of their peers. The epiphany occurs sometimes when one least expects it. Perhaps you’ve just purchased liners grown in coir. You notice the difference. Maybe a...
