Brilliant Bricks!

It will be a while yet before we can reap the harvest of “naturally occuring” grass in the garden etc and so the Cereal Grass Growing continues (though we grow ours year round). When you have found a suitable grass to grow it will need a medium in which to grow. Many people successfully grow their grasses without compost but on Planet Guinea this is not a method that suits us at all- yet we do not want to put people off as many friends and customers find this preferable to using compost! Ours however goes mouldy and we end up throwing it away! We have found the same with soaking the grain prior to germination- yet others swear by it. Trial and error is the only way.

When selecting a growing medium that is “all” most people want but increasingly there is a movement towards organic and “nothing added” growing. On Planet Guineas we fall into the latter group with our primary concern being over whether anything has been added to the compost. Whilst we do not use a courier and cannot “ship” large bags of Organic Compost we can supply you with a house brick size compost “Brilliant Brick”. When water is added (by you) the Brilliant Brick increases to 8 or 9 litres in size and we have no problem keeping it for 3 weeks in a bucket.

The Brilliant Brick is made from coconut waste with nothing else added, because no nutrients have been added we use it once and then discard. Given that we only fill the seed tray to half the depth when growing grass this amounts to very little. After 12 days the roots will have taken over the bottom of the tray and will be doing the job of the compost. All the nutrients come from the grain itself, not the compost which is why regrowth is almost non existent, if its continuous growing grass you want then you will need to add nasty and unnecessary chemicals, not something we want to do here.

The Brilliant Brick is sent in a paper bag (we don’t recommend you give this to guinea in case of dust), inside a padded envelope and with full instructions, if you have any queries please email us, we are always happy to help and we do use these ourselves