Peat-free compost

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• KayJ Posts: 82

  January 2021

  Having tried (and failed) with the only easily-available peat-free compost last year (New Horizon, which had the consistency of hoover bag contents and in which just about everything I planted failed to grow....), are there any recommendations for a good-quality but sensibly-priced and easily-sourced peat-free please?
  

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• Eustace Posts: 2,290

  January 2021

  Pardon my ignorance, the multipurpose compost from homebase or b&q, are they peat-based or peat-free? TIA.

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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  January 2021 edited January 2021

  B&Q do both, but they don't make it particularly prominent on the packaging. For example this one is peat-free https://www.diy.com/departments/goodhome-multi-purpose-compost-100l/5036581089993_BQ.prd , this one contains some peat https://www.diy.com/departments/verve-multipurpose-multi-purpose-compost-125l/1635294_BQ.prd
  I don't know about Homebase (they closed both of the branches that I could easily get to, so I don't buy from them any more).
  

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  January 2021

  amancalledgeorge said:

  Some old folk get upset Montie keeps asking them to use peat free. Thankfully like the dinosaurs they will be extinct eventually and nobody will use peat no more. It just takes time.

  @amancalledgeorge - George, there are a lot of members of this forum, old and young, who are dedicated to peat composts. The habit does not seem to be dying any time soon, unfortunately.
  
  
  
  

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