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Warning: "Clover Bark Chips" - a brand to be wary of!
This is a warning to gardeners about to purchase bark chips for the garden. Be wary of the Clover brand, packed and distributed by "Clover Peat Products" of Northern Ireland. Their "bark chips" come in large dark-green plastic sacks. http://www.cloverpeat.co.uk/CLOVER-BARK.html The bags certainly USED TO contain high-quality, attractive, dark-stained, brown, bark chips. But bags bought a month ago contained more wet brown rubbish (ideal for stuff to grow in, or at least very likely to break down quite soon into soil) than they did attractive bark chips. Given that the idea behind spreading bark chips around is to suppress weeds, the stuff that has come out of recent bags is to be avoided. It's more likely to encourage weed-GROWTH! What's more, the few "bark chips" amidst all the dark-stained "rubbish" are hardly attractive. They look more like scrag-ends scooped up from the floor of a some timber-merchants! See two photos of the mess that's recently tumbled out of sacks of "Clover Bark Chips" he http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/g...kChipspic1.jpg and he http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/g...kChipspic2.jpg There are plenty of other brands available. |
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Warning: "Clover Bark Chips" - a brand to be wary of!
On Apr 23, 1:46*pm, Eddy
wrote: This is a warning to gardeners about to purchase bark chips for the garden. Be wary of the Clover brand, packed and distributed by "Clover Peat Products" of Northern Ireland. *Their "bark chips" come in large dark-green plastic sacks. http://www.cloverpeat.co.uk/CLOVER-BARK.html The bags certainly USED TO contain high-quality, attractive, dark-stained, brown, bark chips. But bags bought a month ago contained more wet brown rubbish (ideal for stuff to grow in, or at least very likely to break down quite soon into soil) than they did attractive bark chips. Given that the idea behind spreading bark chips around is to suppress weeds, the stuff that has come out of recent bags is to be avoided. It's more likely to encourage weed-GROWTH! What's more, the few "bark chips" amidst all the dark-stained "rubbish" are hardly attractive. *They look more like scrag-ends scooped up from the floor of a some timber-merchants! See two photos of the mess that's recently tumbled out of sacks of "Clover Bark Chips" he http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/g...verBarkChipspi... and he http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/g...verBarkChipspi... There are plenty of other brands available. Have you tried contacting them and sending them the pictures? |
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Warning: "Clover Bark Chips" - a brand to be wary of!
Dave Hill wrote:
Have you tried contacting them and sending them the pictures? Yes, they and the local suppliers have been advised. Eddy. |
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