Product Description
- This unique, bark-based Melcourt product is
supplied in a 950 x 250 millimetre nominal crop bag size.
- Production blueprints based on research at
Stockbridge Technology Centre. See the WRAP report on the development of the Melcourt Salad Bag. Please note that within the report the product is referred to as FCCB.
Typical Crop Applications
- Single-season hydroponic production of
tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers.
User Benefits
- Melcourt Salad-Bags®
have been shown to match the quality and yield of existing mineral wool systems.
- Easy to ‘wet-up’ and
‘re-wet’ the entire bag contents.
- Excellent root growth
throughout the bag.
- Lower water / nutrient
requirements with no yield or quality reduction indicated.
- Natural pest and disease
suppression may occur.
- Disposal after the crop has been cleared is a far less costly and a substantially more environmentally
acceptable option.
- Very
cost comparable, compared to the existing mineral wool slabs.
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Product Features
- The Melcourt Salad-Bag®
contains a special bark formulation, from the UK’s market leader in the
manufacture of bark-based products for horticulture.
- Requires the same
greenhouse layout and husbandry as conventional mineral wool slabs.
- Extremely consistent
product backed by rigorous quality assurance systems.
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Virtually no nutrient
content allowing full control over nutrient regimes.
- Maintains the high
starting air-filled porosity throughout the life of the crop allowing ultimate
control of watering and feeding.
- 100% peat-free.
- Packed in co-extruded polythene sleeves.
- Melcourt Salad-Bags® are packed on
900 x 1100mm one-way trip pallets with 110 bags per pallet. Each pallet load
has protective corner strips, is top sheeted, spun wrapped and individually
labelled.
- Soon we expect transplants to be available in
a similar medium to the Melcourt Salad-Bag®.
How to Use
- Melcourt Salad-Bags® should be laid
out in the greenhouse and used in the same way as mineral wool slabs
- Drainage slits can be cut after full wetting up
- Conventional nutrient solutions should be
applied although the indications are that up to 20% less water / nutrient may be
sufficient for optimum yield and quality
- Can be recycled or composted
at the end of the season
Crop Management
- The use of Melcourt
Salad-Bags® does not require any major changes to crop management
compared to mineral wool systems
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