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Multi Purpose Compost
Jake wrote:
On Sat, 28 May 2011 01:25:10 -0700 (PDT), Dave Hill wrote: On May 28, 8:07*am, "Bob Hobden" wrote: "mrcpea" *wrote ... 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. I think that is a problem we are all having, always used Levingtons but the last lot of that I bought had mouldy bits in it, non-sterilised composted waste I suspect. Used a "John Innes" this year and it's worked better although I have mixed it with other stuff depending on what I'm potting up. -- Regards Bob Hobden W.of London. UK I find that B & Q Multi pourpous Compost, (with peat) is good If I remember right, Which? published a review in January 2010 which said that B&Q multipurpose (with peat) was the best and also the cheapest of those that it tested. I don't use multipurpose any more but in the past my own experience was that Westland was generally the best. Cheers Jake You are dead right - I subscribe to Which? and they reported lots of tests and founbd B&Q multipurpose best for all sorts. JIP |
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Multi Purpose Compost
On Sat, 28 May 2011 11:25:51 -0500, "JIP"
wrote: Jake wrote: On Sat, 28 May 2011 01:25:10 -0700 (PDT), Dave Hill wrote: On May 28, 8:07*am, "Bob Hobden" wrote: "mrcpea" *wrote ... 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. I think that is a problem we are all having, always used Levingtons but the last lot of that I bought had mouldy bits in it, non-sterilised composted waste I suspect. Used a "John Innes" this year and it's worked better although I have mixed it with other stuff depending on what I'm potting up. -- Regards Bob Hobden W.of London. UK I find that B & Q Multi pourpous Compost, (with peat) is good If I remember right, Which? published a review in January 2010 which said that B&Q multipurpose (with peat) was the best and also the cheapest of those that it tested. I don't use multipurpose any more but in the past my own experience was that Westland was generally the best. Cheers Jake You are dead right - I subscribe to Which? and they reported lots of tests and founbd B&Q multipurpose best for all sorts. JIP I've heard that Which? are running (or have run) another test on compost this year, with twice as many brands/types as in the 2009/10 one. Is this true, do you know? Might be worth the £1 temp subscription to the web site to get hold of a copy of the results. |
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On Sat, 28 May 2011 17:32:36 +0100, Jake Nospam@invalid wrote:
On Sat, 28 May 2011 11:25:51 -0500, "JIP" wrote: Jake wrote: On Sat, 28 May 2011 01:25:10 -0700 (PDT), Dave Hill wrote: On May 28, 8:07*am, "Bob Hobden" wrote: "mrcpea" *wrote ... 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. I think that is a problem we are all having, always used Levingtons but the last lot of that I bought had mouldy bits in it, non-sterilised composted waste I suspect. Used a "John Innes" this year and it's worked better although I have mixed it with other stuff depending on what I'm potting up. -- Regards Bob Hobden W.of London. UK I find that B & Q Multi pourpous Compost, (with peat) is good If I remember right, Which? published a review in January 2010 which said that B&Q multipurpose (with peat) was the best and also the cheapest of those that it tested. I don't use multipurpose any more but in the past my own experience was that Westland was generally the best. Cheers Jake You are dead right - I subscribe to Which? and they reported lots of tests and founbd B&Q multipurpose best for all sorts. JIP I've heard that Which? are running (or have run) another test on compost this year, with twice as many brands/types as in the 2009/10 one. Is this true, do you know? Might be worth the £1 temp subscription to the web site to get hold of a copy of the results. The library will have Which? -- And they probably need as many bodies through the doors as possible. I bet the various brands vary quite a bit from year to year. For specialists and connoisseurs the difference may matter, but I think that for most of us the cheapest will do perfectly well. Morrisons, last time I looked, were knocking out 40-litre bags of multi-purpose at two for five pounds. That's six and a quarter pence per litre, which is growbag price. It's very peaty, though: presumably "30% peat free" is dishonest commercialese for "70% peat". In a moment of inattention I bought four, and feel a bit guilty about it...my tomatoes, however, don't. -- Mike. |
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Mike Lyle wrote:
On Sat, 28 May 2011 17:32:36 +0100, Jake Nospam@invalid wrote: On Sat, 28 May 2011 11:25:51 -0500, "JIP" wrote: Jake wrote: On Sat, 28 May 2011 01:25:10 -0700 (PDT), Dave Hill wrote: On May 28, 8:07*am, "Bob Hobden" wrote: "mrcpea" *wrote ... 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. I think that is a problem we are all having, always used Levingtons but the last lot of that I bought had mouldy bits in it, non-sterilised composted waste I suspect. Used a "John Innes" this year and it's worked better although I have mixed it with other stuff depending on what I'm potting up. -- Regards Bob Hobden W.of London. UK I find that B & Q Multi pourpous Compost, (with peat) is good If I remember right, Which? published a review in January 2010 which said that B&Q multipurpose (with peat) was the best and also the cheapest of those that it tested. I don't use multipurpose any more but in the past my own experience was that Westland was generally the best. Cheers Jake You are dead right - I subscribe to Which? and they reported lots of tests and founbd B&Q multipurpose best for all sorts. JIP I've heard that Which? are running (or have run) another test on compost this year, with twice as many brands/types as in the 2009/10 one. Is this true, do you know? Might be worth the £1 temp subscription to the web site to get hold of a copy of the results. The library will have Which? -- And they probably need as many bodies through the doors as possible. I bet the various brands vary quite a bit from year to year. For specialists and connoisseurs the difference may matter, but I think that for most of us the cheapest will do perfectly well. Morrisons, last time I looked, were knocking out 40-litre bags of multi-purpose at two for five pounds. That's six and a quarter pence per litre, which is growbag price. It's very peaty, though: presumably "30% peat free" is dishonest commercialese for "70% peat". In a moment of inattention I bought four, and feel a bit guilty about it...my tomatoes, however, don't. I don't use enough of it to be able to do my own comaprisons, but in the Which trials there were some that they advised AGAINST buying - virtually half the germination rate of the best buy. One example was the B&Q peat free multipurpose, whereas their other general purpose one was best buy for planting seeds and for growing on. I don't know if they are doing further tests - they only announce what they are going to report on about a month in advance. |
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They say a accepted purpose admixture contains abundant nutrients for x number of weeks, but I grew a bonanza crop of spuds in annihilation but the B&Q stuff, so that absolutely doesn't add up. Presumably it break down like any added vegetable matter, although conceivably added slowly.
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