[Paul Plots]

I buy compost according to the size of the bag and the weight.... price too, of course.

It has to fit in my cycle trailer, be not too soaked as it adds to the weight, and be from somewhere that has not too many hills between them and home.

All very scientifically simple - like me 

[fletcherbaker]

Well as a newbie ive brought about 6 different brands so far of compost and have found the cheap and cheerfull stuff pretty good apart from some seed compost i brought from wilkos yesterday which had a small slug inside not happy

[Trillium]

Yukk. If you've still got your receipt, take back the compost and the slugs and demand a better replacement. Stores insist they stand by their name, so make them prove it.

[fletcherbaker]

I would of done but had no reciept and had used half of it when i realised but id stay well away from wilkos own seed and cutting compost IMO

[Gwiz]

I usually just use whatever is on offer from the garden centre I can walk to in five minuets.
Sometimes it's this brand, sometimes it's that,
Can't say I can really be bothered to treat it as a science.
I haven't starved to death over the results yet.

[BostonInbred]

Well as a newbie ive brought about 6 different brands so far of compost and have found the cheap and cheerfull stuff pretty good apart from some seed compost i brought from wilkos yesterday which had a small slug inside not happy

yes but fair do's, baby slugs are less than 1mm long when born, and it was probably smaller than that when the bag was made.  I dont know of a single way you could screen a 1mm slug out of a compost stream on a compost production line. Its not like you can suck it out with a magnet or pass it through a screen.

[carrotlovers]

Just finished using 2 bags of ASDA cheap stuff. Been okay for my purposes (only to grow sunflowers in for my kids), but would really use it for anything else, as it's full of lumps of clay, and what looks like root fibre. Sunflowers seems to be doing okay though, much to kids delight...

[BostonInbred]

Just finished using 2 bags of ASDA cheap stuff. Been okay for my purposes (only to grow sunflowers in for my kids), but would really use it for anything else, as it's full of lumps of clay, and what looks like root fibre. Sunflowers seems to be doing okay though, much to kids delight...

if it has root fibre in then its either all green waste OR its got top layer peat in that uncomposted, either way its been made on the cheap   

[mumofstig]

Just finished using 2 bags of ASDA cheap stuff. Been okay for my purposes (only to grow sunflowers in for my kids), but would really use it for anything else, as it's full of lumps of clay, and what looks like root fibre. Sunflowers seems to be doing okay though, much to kids delight...

if it has root fibre in then its either all green waste OR its got top layer peat in that uncomposted, either way its been made on the cheap   

[Paul Plots]

What more can you say to that?  :blink:

[Jodie A]

Got 4 bags of B&Q 70 litre multi purpose for mother's day    The big bag with pink flowers on the front.

Looks lovely stuff! 

[Jamie Butterworth]

Does anyone know if this is any good?

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=10767881&fh_reftheme=promo_160229209%2cseeall%2c%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB%2fcategories%3c%7b9372012%7d%2fcategories%3c%7b9372020%7d%2fcategories%3c%7b9372095%7d%2fspecificationsProductType%3dcomposts___fertilisers&fh_view_size=10&fh_start_index=10&fh_location=%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB%2fcategories%3c%7b9372012%7d%2fcategories%3c%7b9372020%7d%2fcategories%3c%7b9372095%7d%2fspecificationsProductType%3dcomposts___fertilisers%2fspecificationsSpecificProductType%3dspecialist_compost&fh_eds=%c3%9f&fh_refview=lister&ts=1269290877167&isSearch=false

[JayG]

Does anyone know if this is any good?

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=10767881&fh_reftheme=promo_160229209%2cseeall%2c%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB%2fcategories%3c%7b9372012%7d%2fcategories%3c%7b9372020%7d%2fcategories%3c%7b9372095%7d%2fspecificationsProductType%3dcomposts___fertilisers&fh_view_size=10&fh_start_index=10&fh_location=%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB%2fcategories%3c%7b9372012%7d%2fcategories%3c%7b9372020%7d%2fcategories%3c%7b9372095%7d%2fspecificationsProductType%3dcomposts___fertilisers%2fspecificationsSpecificProductType%3dspecialist_compost&fh_eds=%c3%9f&fh_refview=lister&ts=1269290877167&isSearch=false

Who cares? (it's probably a world-recordl URL!!!!)         

[Jamie Butterworth]

I thoughtit was looking a bit long as I copied it 

[moose]

In a rush and wife bought a bag of the ASDA stuff. Bag says it is Sphagnum peat with added nutrients. Light as a feather but looks as if it holds water o.k. Only using for seed sowing, I don't think it would be much use for any thing else.