I think the j arthur bowers Homebase is fair bit better than the last b&q verve I bought BUT i suspect they are of inconsistent quality ie could be fine could be rubbish. Keep an eye on wickes website too they often have offers.
The only time I would go to Wyevale is to window browse or get reduced compost. Lidl (peat free option too) and surprisingly the Budgens ones have been cheapest & the best quality for MPC in the last two years.
I grow my tomatoes / cucumbers in the GH border in home made compost, I do feed though with tomorite and will probably add some manure this year. I've only give the border a heavy mulch this year couldn't be bothered digging it out, I'll do that next year. I use the rest to mulch veg patch / trug and borders I buy my compost from the GC for potting plants etc, its normally westland / leveington 4bags 50 litre for a £10 , I don't have any complaints. I remember next door buying some from asda a few years ago, the whole bag was practically still grass, she took it back and asked for a refund.
Confused about all this. The idea that compost only contains x amount of "nutrients" seems to me a marketing ploy. What does it become when they're exhausted? A pile of organic stuff that then rots down to what?
It then rots down with all your other garden waste to become next year’s mulch, which is a good soil improver, thus not needing fertilisers on your ground.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I like to differentiate between a soil improver and something which is a source of nutrients. B&Q label ordinary sharp sand as a "soil improver" (and charge extra as I recall) and, similarly, perlite/vermiculite have beneficial effects on soil structure without adding nutrients. My theory is that GP compost goes on feeding plants long after they say the nutrients are exhausted.
You mean they add plant food to the compost, or they can predict that 6 weeks down the line the goodness will be "spent"? All sounds like marketing hype to me
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Keep an eye on wickes website too they often have offers.
I buy my compost from the GC for potting plants etc, its normally westland / leveington 4bags 50 litre for a £10 , I don't have any complaints. I remember next door buying some from asda a few years ago, the whole bag was practically still grass, she took it back and asked for a refund.
My theory is that GP compost goes on feeding plants long after they say the nutrients are exhausted.
Since the new website I cant find how to do it....Help