Empathy rootgrow

🌳 RHS Endorsed | 🪴Expertise in production and application of microbial soil treatments in agri, horti and hobby gardening | #rootgrow #mycorrhizalfungi 🌱

[Empathy rootgrow @empathyrootgrow]

Mycorrhizal fungi have the ability to unlock and access nutrients from the soil far more efficiently than a plant’s own roots 🍄

Read our latest blog post on 'Healthy Soil Healthy Planet' for further information 🌱
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#MycorrhizalFungi #organicgardening

[Empathy rootgrow @empathyrootgrow]

@pandamoanymum Hi there, the gel is a natural and completely harmless substance so please just dispose in a regular bin 😊

[Empathy rootgrow @empathyrootgrow]

@stourvalleysam Looking great!

[Lou Nicholls @loujnicholls]

I know I go on about @empathyrootgrow bulb starter but when you get this level of results in just one year can you blame me!

I literally won't pot up without it 😍

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Lou Nicholls @loujnicholls]

Today i will be mostly feeding my plants 😍
Of all the organic feeds I've tried this is still my favourite
It contains liquid seaweed and a biostimulant and has all the trace elements plants need 🤗
@empathyrootgrow

[Monty Don @TheMontyDon]

Happy new month! June - and summer- is here. Make the most of it in your garden by going to my website https://t.co/zSdEo68Y6W for brand new tips, jobs and brilliant inspiration.

[Empathy rootgrow @empathyrootgrow]

Are you ready for spring planting? rootgrow mycorrhizal fungi is sold in all major garden centres and DIY stores nationwide 🌼🌱🪴

[Annabelle Padwick @LifeatNo27]

The sign is going up thanks to @SxSwansea and the fantastic @BrynawelRehab1 volunteers, but we still need to build the allotments, sensory garden and wildlife zone. Can you help?

https://t.co/9jrnsZYOQf

Every £1 donated is being tripled by our two matchfunders!

#therapygarden

[Lou Nicholls @loujnicholls]

I know I bleat on about @empathyrootgrow bulb starter but here's why!
1 bulb of Don Armstrong bought from @PaulEdulis in 2022 with an offset to this in 2023
That's 2 flowering bulbs and 2 good offsets plus 4 tiny babies 😍
Its good stuff!

[Dr Jill Whitelock @JillWhitelock]

Bee in Winter aconite. 💚

[Grow Your Own @GYOmag]

WIN! Our grand final #SowforSpring Instagram giveaway has just gone live! 🌱

Check out our latest Instagram post for the chance to win a Traditional Stainless Planting Spade from @spearandjackson and a GYO planting pack from @empathyrootgrow!

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[Grow Your Own @GYOmag]

WIN! A new #SowforSpring Instagram giveaway has just landed! 🌱

Check out our latest Instagram post for the chance to win a GYO Planting Pack from @empathyrootgrow!

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#growyourown #giveaway

[Empathy rootgrow @empathyrootgrow]

Autumn Jobs:
• Plant bulbs including Alliums and Tulips.
• Lift and store Dahlia tubers once the foliage has been blackened by the first frost.
• Apply a layer of mulch to beds and borders
• Remove leaves from under roses to help protect against disease
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[Empathy rootgrow @empathyrootgrow]

Help your birds this Autumn:
• Provide a range of different seeds and feed mixes
• Provide fresh water
• Take down and thoroughly clean nest boxes.
For high quality feeds the birds are sure to love, check out our ‘For the love of birds’ range

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[Empathy rootgrow @empathyrootgrow]

Mycorrhizal fungi is the perfect partner when planting – the all-natural fungi form a secondary root system helping support the plant for it’s entire lifetime. A scoop added to the planting hole at time of planting is all that’s needed. 🍄

#rootgrow #mycorrhizalfungi #planting

[Empathy rootgrow @empathyrootgrow]

🌷Plant hardy summer-flowering bulbs such as alliums, lilies & tulips during October. Don’t forget the Bulb Starter – just a sprinkle in the planting hole is all that’s needed to get bulbs off to the best start🌷

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[Empathy rootgrow @empathyrootgrow]

🌼Spring might not be on our minds right now, but late summer is a great time to plant daffodils! Add a scoop of Empathy Bulb Starter to the planting hole and watch your bulbs flourish in Spring 🌼
📷️ Jeffrey Hamilton on Unsplash
#springbulbs

[Empathy rootgrow @empathyrootgrow]

Fresh tomatoes straight from the garden are an August treat!🍅 Our Top Tips:
• Stake plants to provide support
• Check tomato plants daily and harvest fruits once they are ripe.
• Water thoroughly and feed regularly with Empathy Tomato Feed
📷️ Markus Spiske on Unsplash
#GYO

[Empathy rootgrow @empathyrootgrow]

With harvesting in full swing there are still seeds which can be sown in August to keep food production going all year round; these include:
• Radish
• Rocket
• Spring Cabbages
• Spinach

What are you sowing in August?

📷️ Jo Lanta on Unsplash
#veggiegarden #gyo #nodig

[Empathy rootgrow @empathyrootgrow]

August is the time to plant autumn flowering bulbs and corms! Autumn crocus produce wonderful displays on rock gardens and border edges. Don’t forget to add Empathy Bulb Starter to the planting hole to support healthy growth and flowering
📷️ Erik van Dijk on Unsplash
#bulbs