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"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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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.

But does it leave a smell int car

...............................Leslie



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Actually, no. Mind you the dump is only 5 minutes away. Now, if it was
manure that might be different.