Bags of potting compost purchased - absolutely rubbish
Hi, I'm new to this site & have joined to seek advice from gardeners about potting compost. Every bag I have purchased this year, various brands, all seems to be the same stuff. It has no real substance & dries out really quickly. Has anyone else experienced similar problems ? In the end I resorted to mixing it 50/50 with riddled soil to add some body to it. The bags all have the same printed information - Made from recycled garden waste, sand & a handful of plant food granules. Any advice gratefully received.
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I've bought Clover multipurpose compost, which is lovely, no rubbish in it.
This problem is not going to go away as more and more has to be recycled to reach targets.
I am never really sure if coir is eco-friendly. Is it viable to ship it so far from its country of origin?
I sell New Horizon peat free one, probably one of the better ones. It's all pretty grim stuff, whatever the brand, and I sell it!. I advise always to use a good garden compost and garden soil instead. If I'm potting up, I mix the multi-purpose 2 - 1 by volume with JI No. 3. Youre right about the water retention capability, very poor. It is, as you've said, mostly composted (not very well) wood fibre and added ingredients as a fertiliser. A very poor substitute for soil. HC
Where do you get your coir from Rebecca?
There's lots of rubbish about this year, as people say. This is a J Arthur Bower grow-bag I'm usung as part of a trial at the moment, showing some of the stuff I found in there. A bag of Hew Horizons Peat free Organic MPC was as bad.
They all have a fair bit of unrotted wood in them which is going to use up loads of the nitrogen as it decomposes
Best compost this year Jacks Magic at Homebase,the best i have ever bought.