[Zak the Rabbit]

does anyone know if cocoa shell is still available anywhere? a workmate asked me last night, he's into orchids and azailieas (sp), but says he cant seem to get hold of it anymore?

[Trillium]

I don't know about cocoa shell availability, but my sis is into orchids and she's always uses spaghum moss which should be easier to find.

[Ruby Red]

I don't know about cocoa shell availability, but my sis is into orchids and she's always uses spaghum moss which should be easier to find.

   
   Ooops Trillium, (wags finger) over here thats a bit of a no no. Its been over collected and in danger of becoming scarce.

[Wildeone]

My local garden centre sells orchid compost - would that do?

[Alfie]

My local garden center sells coco shells

[Snap Dragon]

All this talk of cocoa shell is making me crave chocolate!

Naughty peeps! :evil:

[iwantanallotment]

Is coir similar? Don't know anything about orchids, but I hear it's used for growing hydroponically. I buy it online (for wormery) but it's hard to find in shops.

[weeeed]

B & Q sell cocoa shell and I've used it for years as a mulch. Love the smell of it after rain. It doesn't seem to blow a way like wood chips do either.

[poultrygeist]

If you have a dog you have to be careful of cocoa shell. They love ot eat it and it'll poison them. Our dog ate loads of choc at Christmas so I read up on it and apparently cocoa shell is/was one of the biggest causes of trips to the vet.

End of public information annoncement.

[Wildeone]

:shock: was the doggy ok?

[poultrygeist]

:shock: was the doggy ok?

I expected an emergency vet visit but he visited the garden a couple of times and you wouldn't know he'd eaten anything untoward.

He has done it before one Easter but fortunately i think the choc they use is so rubbish that it contains very little cocoa.

It does poison us but we have a mechanism for lushing it through the system. Lower mammals don't.

Rob

[Glen]

does anyone know if cocoa shell is still available anywhere? a workmate asked me last night, he's into orchids and azailieas (sp), but says he cant seem to get hold of it anymore?

Zac maybe this will help? Need to scroll down to near the bottom.

http://www.dartfrog.co.uk/equipment/landscape.html

My friend keeps Dart Frogs and uses all kinds of tropical shells in his displays.