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Lidl Compost

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  • Sk8erbunSk8erbun Posts: 3

    My Lidl peat smells of sewage, its gross as ive never smelt soil like it except in stagnant ponds

  • everoseveros Posts: 55

    I'm still concerned about using compost on vegetables made from green waste, but what else can we use? Any ideas?

  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,843

    I bought some peat free compost from ALDI the other week and it was very sticky wet and black, it didn't smell bad and all my potted on plants are doing ok in it. I bought some peat free compost from LIDL last week and it was loose free draining without any lumps or bark or coconut fibre, in fact it looked like peat free compost from a good source.

  • GazzarGazzar Posts: 1
    I've bought a grow bag from Lidle - smells of tar, not crumbly and hard to break up! Any update on whether this is safe or not?
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,614

    Gazzar,take it back and get your money back. I wouldn't risk it.

  • MoominMamaMoominMama Posts: 36

    I bought a bag of Lidl peat free this year. Its disgusting! Black, smells of oil and leaches black liquid out when watered. I threw it away - whatevers in it, I don't want to eat the produce - YUK !!

  • TomskTomsk Posts: 204

    I bought a bag of multi-purpose compost (not peat-free) from Aldi yesterday, and it smelt of Jeyes fluid or bitumen. Must be the same stuff Lidl have been selling.

    It's almost black when it's soaking wet and the same colour when it's bone dry (unlike any other soil I've seen, which lightens when dry).

    I bought a bag of the same stuff about four months ago and it was very different. Not the best, but quite woody and smelled of forests in the rain. That was OK for £2 but the bag yesterday was rubbish even for £2, and I worry about what's in it due to that smell. Not to mention what effect this might have on my fruit/plants.

    The annoying thing is that most of my compost was J Arthur Bowers, and I only bought the Aldi bag to top up the last bits, thinking it would be good enough and save me another trip to the garden centre.

  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    Tomsk, if i need a bulk buy of compost etc, i use creative garden ideas, they have free delivery to most places when you spend 30quid, i usually do a autumn order of muck etc image
  • I potted up my pelargoniums in this compost in the autumn.  I keep the pots on a suny windowsill through the winter as I do every year,  This winter we have had a plague of little black flies which need to be cleaned up every few days.  I have resorted to spraying them with RAID fly spray - my dining table is right next to this window!!  There are millions and millions of these dead black flies every two days which have to be cleaned up as they look so disgusting in the plant saucers and on the white window sill.  The compost seemed to consist of a great deal of soot - it did say on the bag to use heavy duty plastic gloves.  If you did not your hands were black with soot.  I would have thought that this compost would have had to be passed by Trading Standards.

  • treehugger80treehugger80 Posts: 1,923

    I've found that if its cheap stuff is never up to much,

    its the old saying "if it looks too good to be true, it probably isn't" 

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