Growing strawberries on innovative substrates with climate-friendly alternatives to peat

Strawberries grown on innovative substrates - with compost, biochar, chitin and wood fibers - grow just as well as they do on traditional substrates, which contain a lot of peat. This means that in the relatively short term, the sector can become even more climate-friendly and even more circular than it already is. In the European Horti-BlueC project, research centers ILVO, Hoogstraten and other partners have done extensive trials to make potting soil with a number of local alternatives. At least 40% of the peat could be replaced with no effect on yield. In terms of disease susceptibility, fruit quality and shelf life, the strawberries grown on substrates without a lot of peat scored just as well as those with a lot. An additional advantage is that the new substrates can get a second life at the end of the growing season.
The researchers could make them into compost and convert them into biochar - and then they were mixed into new substrates. The used substrates with biochar are also good soil improvers with a special climate benefit: they store additional carbon in the soil.
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how about reusing the products, instead of wasting them.. all substrates usually only get one use.

[@aliahmadi94T]

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[@rubyrose49]

This is really cool and interesting to see there are other new growing media apart from coconut byproducts.