On May 30, 9:57*am, Sacha wrote:
On 2011-05-30 08:41:04 +0100, harry said:





On May 28, 7:07*am, mrcpea wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone recommend a good quality Multi Purpose Compost other than
J. Arthur Bowers. We've found this to be rather inferior & not as good
as it used to be.

Kind regards

mrcpea

This compost business is all crap, *Get down to your local recycle
centre and see if they sell it there. Our's sells it for £2/ big bag.

It's rough stuff full of little bits of wood etc. *However, I riddle
it and add sand as neccessary. *Works out at a fraction of the cost.
I get a ton bag of sand from the builders merchant, lasts for years.

If you want to get really technical:
http://gardener.wikia.com/wiki/John_Innes_compost

That's not compost though. *That's soil improver, if that. *We've
bought something a little better to use on 'starved' soil for a
customer, to make it lighter, less compacted etc. but it's not a
nourisher for growing young plants.
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Tell us all the diifference then?
The recycle centre stuff comes from the shredded and rotted down
garden "waste" people put in the recycle centre skip. They have huge
COMPOST heaps at the place where this is done.
Nourisher?

Nutrients are recycled from plant waste as it rots down. Oil based
artificial additives should be a last resort.