"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
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People seem to know the cheapest/best place to get compost on here!
I need about 10 bags or more to pot up stuff generally, especially
cuttings that have now rooted or need moving on.
Where's the best place to get it from? i wasn't too impressed by the
quality of a local Wyevales compost, very coarse and not that good for the
plants by the way they grew.

Janet

I once bought a lump of pressed coir or I may have received it as a
freebie with other purchases, anyway although it was only coir it produced
the most amazing root systems and growth on potted up plants and I wonder
if I added long term fertiliser to it whether that might be an option?
Several gardeners I know order from individual suppliers who seem to
travel up from the south coast with lorries and deliver say 20 bags at a
time. This compost seems heavier, more like pure John innes but I am
never sure I can trust the quality .




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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

Slightly O/T investigate your local tip! Mine takes all the garden waste
and composts it. Most gets sold in bulk but if I tip(!) up with my car and
bags they weigh the car as I go in. I then fill the bags from an enormous,
steaming, heap return to the weighbridge where they calculate the difference
and charge me accordingly. I usually come away with a Peugeot 306 estate
with 4 very large tip bags in the back for about £9 and I'd expect to pay
more than double for the same weight/volume from my local garden centre.
If I had a trailer they have a digger and will fill it for me but I don't so
I have to shovel.

It makes a remarkably good growing medium. I filled one raised bed with it
as an experiment and things are growing nicely. In other raised beds I've
been mixing it with the earth (which has a tendency to dry out) and it's
working a treat.