We're proud to share that Blue Apple Garden has been featured in Horticulture Week — the UK's leading horticulture trade publication — in an article on our launch as a new peat-free buffered coco coir supplier. You can read the full piece on hortweek.com (subscription required).
Why we built Blue Apple Garden
As we told Horticulture Week, the business was a direct answer to two frustrations trade buyers kept raising — coir sold without anyone explaining whether it is actually buffered, and pricing you can only get by asking:
“We hold stock here in the UK, publish our full pallet pricing openly on the website, and offer 30-day terms to approved accounts. With coir supply and pricing as volatile as they've been lately, holding UK stock and quoting fixed, transparent trade prices — rather than the usual 'request a quote' — is the gap we built the business around.”
You can see exactly what we mean on our Trade & Growers page, where the full tiered pallet pricing is published openly.
Washed versus washed-and-buffered
The piece also covers the point we think the trade under-discusses — the difference between coir that is simply washed and coir that is washed and buffered:
“Unbuffered coir tends to lock up the calcium and magnesium in a grower's feed and release sodium and potassium instead — behind a lot of the 'coir didn't work for me' experiences — whereas buffering pre-charges it so the feed stays available. It's why we only sell buffered.”
If you'd like the detail, our guide to why buffered coco coir matters explains it in plain English.
What's next
The article also looks ahead to our range of plant-specific peat-free mixes — houseplant, tomato & veg, ericaceous, orchid, cactus and seed-starting — arriving with our next container later this year.
Our thanks to Horticulture Week for the coverage. Whether you're a garden centre, nursery, landscaper or grower, you can see our published trade pricing here — or shop our buffered coco coir bricks.