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RHP Consumer

Is it harmful if a child eats a bit of potting soil? How often must be weeded? Will the plants grow and flower?

If potting soil is ‘good', is often difficult to assess. The RHP Consumer quality mark guarantees safety, certainty, quality and environment. RHP Consumer has been specifically tailored to garden fanciers. RHP Consumer is the only quality mark for potting soil that has been stated on Consuwijzer (the website with independent and reliable advice of the government about consumers rights).

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Assurance from beginning to end
The potting soil with the RHP Consumer quality mark meets the quality requirements and can be used safely (for ex. lacking germs of a disease, such as the invisible pathogens salmonella and other contaminations). That offers extra safety for, for ex. little children who often put any thing in their mouth and for pregnant women. Also the best raw materials for potting soil without weed are made use of, so that the plants grow and flower optimally. Beside to it RHP Consumer guarantees that product really contains the specifications of product and volume, which have been stated on the packaging.

Sustainable production
Producers of RHP potting soil work respectfully concerning the environment. After using a peat production field it is changed into an area of natural beauty again. The groundwater level is increased, so that the rudimentary situation can recover itself again. In this way new peat will come into being and moreover new natural areas will be added.

Quality for anything
The quality mark RHP Consumer offers the consumer the best guarantee for a clean and good end product. RHP has executed research into the quality of consumers potting soil. At this amongst others the contents, the quality and the presence of chemicals which do not belong in potting soil, such as residues of herbicides and pathogens. The results of the research confirm the indispensability of inspection in the whole chain. In potting soil with the RHP Consumer quality mark such chemicals are not allowed to occur.

Products RHP Consumer

  • Bark (Consumer)

    Bark is almost always used as an ingredient of potting soil. There are two types of bark that are used in potting soil: composted bark and 'French' bark (origin: France, Portugal and Spain). French bark is also used as an important ingredient of orchid substrates.

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  • Cocoa shells (Consumer)

    Cocoa shells are especially used as covering material in the garden. Cocoa shells are not used in potting soil. The material is hard and origins from the cocoa processing industry.

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  • Expanded clay granules (Consumer)

    Expanded clay granules, also known as clay pebbles, are produced by heating clay that has special characteristics so that it expands. Expanded clay granules are used primarily for plants in offices, but they are also used as substrate for a variety of production crops.

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  • Lime (Consumer)

    Lime is used in the production of potting soil in order to give the potting soil the desired pH value (acidity). In both the Netherlands and Germany a lime type is produced especially for the production of potting soil.

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  • Clay and claygranules (Consumer)

    Clay and clay granules are used separately in potting soils to give this product its specific chemical and/or physical properties. The used types of clay originate from the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden.

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  • Coir products (Consumer)

    The wide variety of coir materials used in horticulture, such as coir and coir fibre, originate from the husk of the coconut. Coir is used as a substrate for a wide range of crops. Small quantities of coir fibre can be mixed into potting soil.

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  • Potting soil (Consumer)

    Potting soil is a substrate that is composed of several raw materials. Peat is the main component. Beside to it other materials like bark, coir or perlite are added. Potting soil fertilizers and lime are always part of potting soil. Potting soil is applied as a growing medium for a wide range of crops.

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  • Potting soil fertilisers (Consumer)

    Fertilisers are essential additives to potting soil. Fertilisers contain both main elements and trace elements. Because of the gradation they can easily be applied in specific quantities in the production of peat substrate. A potting soil fertiliser serves as basis fertilizing for the potting soil.

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  • RHP Compost (Consumer)

    Compost is a product, which consists partially or entirely of one or more organic waste products that are decayed, with the help of micro organism, to such a stable finished product, that only slow decay of humus combinations still takes place. The product is often used as soil improver.

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  • Garden soil (Consumer)

    Substrate that often consists of a peat raw material and compost. Garden soil is only suitable for improving and/or supplying the soil. Garden soil has often also a fertilizing value.

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  • Compost from garden waste (Consumer)

    A substrate that at least 30% exists of compost. The remaining materials can be many. Garden compost is only suitable for improving and or supplying the soil.

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  • Peat (Consumer)

    Peat is bog moss (Sphagnum) that has decomposed under low-oxygen conditions. Peat is produced primarily in Ireland, Scandinavia, the Baltic States and Northern Germany. There are several types of peat, such as frozen black peat, white peat and sphagnum peat. Each type has its own physical characteristics.

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  • Pond soil (Consumer)

    A potting soil that can only be applied as substrate in a pond. This kind of composition has been chosen because the product can guarantee a good growth of the water plants under the wet circumstances.

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