I always buy verve, £5.98 for 125 litres, and I ask me nanny to come with on Wednesdays so I get an extra 10% off! It's not brilliant, but you wouldn't expect it to be. Haven't had any plant deaths or anything, but I did find a nail, which I wasn't very happy about. Think B&Q must have had a lot of complaints, there was no disputing, they gave me a £20.00 voucher, which I spent on more compost! Obviously itd have been a different story if I had kids or my dog in the garden, but this all happened down my nans.
I tried Verve in 2012 ( keep a diary) it was of poor quality with plastic, fencing and nails in, last year it was much improved and I bought it because the guy who does the gardening section had recommended it, I bought split bags and could see the compost ...employee's get a discount...and he had tested it by growing veg and stuff at home.
I've tried other composts., Alid was good but 2012/2013 seems to have been a bad yr for cheaper composts. I also bought Murphy's compost last year which was good but this year when checking the peat content, It's 1 to 39%, I'm sure it was higher last yr.
Funny that Which? rated Verve highly, and yet loads here have had problems with it. I must admit i don't trust their reviews anymore - had bad experiences with a washer and a vacuum recommended by them too
I found that the first 3 bags of Verve weren't good ( bought all at the same time) no nails but some lumps. When I bought some more, cost based, for tipping on garden that lot was much bettter.
Had it not been for people finding objects in the compost I would have wondered if it was anything to do with buying old stock, as I did buy early and the bags were faded.
I've just bought a bag of Jack's Magic to repot some shrubs, am really impressed with it. Dark, crumbly.... Everything I've thought compost should always be... Then I looked at the peat content (I never pay attention to things like that) and it's really high! Is that bad? Is using peat-based compost a no-no? Have I committed a gardening faux-pas?
I had a number of bags of Verve multi purpose last year and they were perfectly OK.
I bought some bags of Homebase multi purpose to put bulbs in pots into and it looks more like the output of a garden shredder! Big lumps, long stringy stuff etc. I won't buy it again in a hurry.
I bought verve peat free compost and peat free grow bags this year - major disaster I will never buy it again it's so dry and and course with very little nutrient content I've lost lots of plants and lots of plants that just won't grow, who keeps there B&Q receipts and his on earth would you go about complaining ? Invite the manger to inspect your green house ! I want to be environmentally friendly and stay peat free
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I always buy verve, £5.98 for 125 litres, and I ask me nanny to come with on Wednesdays so I get an extra 10% off! It's not brilliant, but you wouldn't expect it to be. Haven't had any plant deaths or anything, but I did find a nail, which I wasn't very happy about. Think B&Q must have had a lot of complaints, there was no disputing, they gave me a £20.00 voucher, which I spent on more compost! Obviously itd have been a different story if I had kids or my dog in the garden, but this all happened down my nans.
I tried Verve in 2012 ( keep a diary) it was of poor quality with plastic, fencing and nails in, last year it was much improved and I bought it because the guy who does the gardening section had recommended it, I bought split bags and could see the compost ...employee's get a discount...and he had tested it by growing veg and stuff at home.
I've tried other composts., Alid was good but 2012/2013 seems to have been a bad yr for cheaper composts. I also bought Murphy's compost last year which was good but this year when checking the peat content, It's 1 to 39%, I'm sure it was higher last yr.
got 8 bags last year for the daughters new garden , no problems cheap and mixed with my own compost gave the fallow garden the lift it needed
You only get what you pay for.
Funny that Which? rated Verve highly, and yet loads here have had problems with it. I must admit i don't trust their reviews anymore - had bad experiences with a washer and a vacuum recommended by them too
I used a bag of Jacks Magic yesterday to fill some pots with primulas and I must say the texture was amazing.
I'm pretty sure these plants are going to grow away strongly.
I found that the first 3 bags of Verve weren't good ( bought all at the same time) no nails but some lumps. When I bought some more, cost based, for tipping on garden that lot was much bettter.
Had it not been for people finding objects in the compost I would have wondered if it was anything to do with buying old stock, as I did buy early and the bags were faded.
I've just bought a bag of Jack's Magic to repot some shrubs, am really impressed with it. Dark, crumbly.... Everything I've thought compost should always be... Then I looked at the peat content (I never pay attention to things like that) and it's really high! Is that bad? Is using peat-based compost a no-no? Have I committed a gardening faux-pas?
I had a number of bags of Verve multi purpose last year and they were perfectly OK.
I bought some bags of Homebase multi purpose to put bulbs in pots into and it looks more like the output of a garden shredder! Big lumps, long stringy stuff etc. I won't buy it again in a hurry.
I bought verve peat free compost and peat free grow bags this year - major disaster I will never buy it again it's so dry and and course with very little nutrient content I've lost lots of plants and lots of plants that just won't grow, who keeps there B&Q receipts and his on earth would you go about complaining ? Invite the manger to inspect your green house !
I want to be environmentally friendly and stay peat free