Cheapest place for compost?

Anyone know of cheap places for compost?

Not looking for anything fancy, its just to give the soil a bit of a boost.

I thought bnq were doing a 75L bag for £3 but couldnt see any when i went

 

Yeah Adam, Read about it last week, £3 a bag, also 20% off ALL plants untill the 8th, im going tonight

 

Don't buy 'Payless' compost from Focus. I have mentioned it in another thread. The bags I bought were not good. I think the particle size was too small. They wouldn't drain even with extra sharp sand added, and set hard when they dried out. I lost quite a lot of seeds with them.

Having said that have always gone for the cheapest and generally not had any problems.

 

Wickes are doing 4x75Ltr bags for £11 odd.
I have 8 to be going on with
robert

 

Rob that will do nicley.

1 for home for the salad crops and 3 down the allotment

 

You will only find the single bag listed on their website but there was pallets full of the multibuy in our Wickes the other day

 

I'd like to buy a whole pallet, or 75L bags, and have it delivered. Have never been able to find anywhere on the web that did that though. Found places that did 1-tonne "builders bags" of compost - which worked out more expensive than the local garden centre ...

If anyone knows a source I'd appreciate it

(I'm looking for general potting compost, rather than soil enricher)

 

Why not try given Wickes a call and see if you can do a deal.
I reckon they would deliver a ton pallet.
That all depends on if you have one in your area.
robert

 

Kristen, you have a PM.

 

I think I might want to test the Wicks compost first. I said that I had some bad compost from Focus - it was their very cheapest. Well Wicks and Focus are the same company - so it is just possible that the Wicks stuff is the same as the Focus stufff.

The test is to put some in a tray and pour water over it. If it drains quickly it is good. But if it drains very slowly and leaves a very flat almost shiney surface, as my Focus compost did, them the particle size is too small. Compost that won't drain is a danger to any seedlings or plants.

 

don't the council have any then where does all the cuttings and stuff go they trim all yr round.The recycling place i went to where i live last wk/end said he had loads in the bottom tip but had no time to bring it up yet....

 

I looked about a fortnight ago-and our local council don't sell it to the public, which I find objectionable.

 

Our local council use the compost to produce all year round bedding for the area, they do a good job with that but I do wish they would make some of it available to the public.

There is a Church next door to me and when they dig graves they take 3 cubic metres of soil out and only one cubic metre goes back in afterwards. A huge spoil heap has developed which they are having removed later this year...at the end of the spoil heap is a large compost area that is also to go...I've just been given permission to "help myself" to it. Most convenient is the fact that its just the other side of the wall from our greenhouse! There is also an old "leaf" pile too, so I'm fairly lucky really.

Steve...

 

Compost from a gravyard....... ummmmmmmm
Nice one Steve. lucky you
robert