Among the numerous inventions and modern innovations in horticulture and floriculture, peat tablets have gained great popularity. With their help, you can germinate seed material, grow seedlings of vegetables and indoor flowers, root cuttings and leaves of plants.
A peat tablet has nothing to do with medicine, it just resembles an ordinary round tablet. Its main composition is ordinary peat, which contains a large number of components important for plants, including many microelements. This handy tool makes the gardener's work more interesting and productive, and saves precious hours and minutes.
The composition and purpose of peat tablets
The size of one tablet is 3 cm in height and about 8 cm in diameter. Before use, it must be abundantly moistened with water so that it swells and becomes larger in volume. After the peat has absorbed a sufficient amount of moisture, the tablet height will increase by almost 5-6 times. In this form, the peat tablet can be used for growing seedlings and germinating seeds.
This device consists of crushed and strongly compressed peat, wrapped in a fine mesh of a special material. A multitude of useful substances and trace elements accelerates the germination of seed and seedlings by creating the most favorable conditions for each individual separately.
Positive sides of peat tablets
- High quality seeds in such conditions have one hundred percent germination, which is especially important when germinating expensive seed material.
- Even the most delicate root part of some plants cannot be damaged by the soft structure of peat, and when transplanting seedlings into open ground, there is no need to remove the plant from the peat "container".
- The root part and the whole plant as a whole does not suffer from a lack of air or moisture, since peat is an excellent moisture and air permeable material.
- The use of peat tablets does not require special skills and abilities; a beginner gardener and even a child can handle them.
- This is a great opportunity to grow plants at home in a small area, since this device does not take up much space and even saves space.
- The process of growing plants in peat pellets saves time and effort.
- All the nutrients necessary for plants, which are in the composition of the tablet, allow you to speed up the process of growing them.
- Transplanting the plant into the open field along with the tablet relieves the plants from the stress they often endure when moving to a permanent location.
Application features
Before germinating the seeds, the tablet must be prepared or activated. To do this, you need to place it in a small container so that the hole on the mesh is at the top, then pour about 150 ml of water on it and leave it for half an hour to swell.After the tablet increases several times in height and absorbs a sufficient amount of liquid, you need to pour out the water remaining in the container and you can plant seedlings or seeds. The planting depth depends on the planting material and the type of plant.
Peat tablets with seeds must be placed in greenhouse conditions with all the favorable components - sufficient lighting, optimal temperature and humidity. From time to time, the tablets need to be moistened until the seeds germinate.
The benefits of peat tablets
- Easy to use where space is limited.
- It makes it possible to stay clean when planting and caring for plants, compared to growing plants in ordinary soil, and does not require additional attention for composing or buying a potting mixture.
- The tablets do not allow an excess of moisture in the root part of the plants, the soil moisture is very easy to control.
- Plants do not require feeding and fertilization, since a peat tablet contains all the necessary substances.
- Due to the peat structure, the root part of the plants can breathe freely, which contributes to the development of strong and hardy seedlings.
