If you have a mid sized garden or above, it is almost impossible to make all the compost you require. I have just under an acre and am an active composter, but still need to buy in green waste and manure.
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Yes I definitely would buy it, if it was sensibly priced, and I needed to add bulky organic matter to the soil or as a mulch. That seems a bit expensive though.
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I'm not sure I'd use it even if our council produced it for sale. I think you'd have to get it and see how it goes though- depending on cost. It does seem very pricey as @Loxley says, but I don't have anything to compare it with other than commercially produced stuff which I've never bought in bulk. I agree with @punkdoc though - if you don't have the materials necessary to make enough of your own compost, or leaf mould, there's no alternative, especially if you like to frequently mulch beds to improve heavy soil. My compost gets used up very quickly for that purpose. Buying some sort of additional organic matter is then needed if you want to grow new plants, sow seed, have pots of annuals, or have some plants that need potting on etc. You can use things like turf that's broken down, or molehill soil if you have some nearby, but that isn't always suitable. My garden is more shrub based as that suits me better, so there isn't the amount of soft material for composting that someone with a cottage garden full of perennials would have. I've also had several blank canvas gardens - you can't just magic it up out of nothing, regardless of what some people might think.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I have just under an acre and am an active composter, but still need to buy in green waste and manure.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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I agree with @punkdoc though - if you don't have the materials necessary to make enough of your own compost, or leaf mould, there's no alternative, especially if you like to frequently mulch beds to improve heavy soil. My compost gets used up very quickly for that purpose. Buying some sort of additional organic matter is then needed if you want to grow new plants, sow seed, have pots of annuals, or have some plants that need potting on etc. You can use things like turf that's broken down, or molehill soil if you have some nearby, but that isn't always suitable.
My garden is more shrub based as that suits me better, so there isn't the amount of soft material for composting that someone with a cottage garden full of perennials would have. I've also had several blank canvas gardens - you can't just magic it up out of nothing, regardless of what some people might think.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...