company profile Bettaland Products Peat-free grown nursery stock bucks industry trend.
Our compost is fully traceable from the day the green waste arrives on site, being put into monitored windrows, until the day it leaves as peat-free compost. With this traceability, our knowledge and the ongoing trials at the university, we are able to offer our customers the comfort that they are using a high quality, tested, traceable product.”
Lincolnshire-based Bettaland Products raised its profile at the British Plant Fair inMarch this year and drewmuch interest fromthe nursery sector.
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his progressive company is looking to triple production this year if a contract
supplying peat-free-grown plants to a big multiple comes to fruition. Bettaland Products Ltd is a
business born out of the success of its sister company, Organic Recycling Ltd which was formed in 1991. It has quickly become one of
CONTAINERISED TREES GROWN IN PEAT-FREE COMPOST “The nursery at Crowland holds a range of hardy nursery stock and containerised trees from6-8 girth upwards, all ofwhich are potted and grown in our home produced peat- free compost.” The growingmedia trials have shown that one plant cannot be grown in the same blend of compost as another. Trees need their own special blend too, so this is the reasoning behind the extensive trials. All of their plants are grown to the same or higher quality as those produced in peat products. Bettaland says it is unique as the ingredients used in itsmix of growingmedia can be graded on arrival on to site giving the consistency that is required to produce top quality stock across this range. Bettaland offers over 75,000 plants in 2-litre to 20-litre pots, plus
uickly become one of the leading recycling plants for green waste within the UK.
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the leading recycling plants for green waste within the UK. The compost that is produced from the green waste brought on to site is peat-free, PAS 100 certified and is regularly quality checked by an outside source. Marketing manager Liza
Spriggs takes up the story. “Our peat-free compost has been extensively trialled at Riseholme University in Lincoln to enable us to use it as a growing media for our nursery. This puts us in the unique position of already using a peat replacement product well ahead of the targets set for 2020.
some 600 trees in varying sizes. The nursery currently stands on
2.5 acres with plans to extend it to 7 acres this coming autumn. This will provide the opportunity to be able to stock a greater range of plants and larger batches to fulfil its expanding customer requirements. Its customer base ranges from landscapers, local authorities, maintenance contractors, major house builders and also a major pub chain.
Formore information call 01733 211666 or email
enquiries@bettaland.co.uk
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