J.O. 50 litre potato compost £1 @ Homebase

best i could find locally was wilko's at £2.95 for 60 lts

 

Thats not your Garden Staff, thats your Walking Stick Cabbage.

 

Thanks Scrungee, I did not know about the checker, Dunfermline 14 miles 74 bags in stock

Cheers

Jack McH

 

Be cautious about making a special journey as from what JWK says it appears not all stores have reduced it yet.

 

Thanks for the heads up
Going to call in on way home from work, as it is just a 3 mile detour then
Here's hoping

Only problem now is how heavy is 50lts of compost, as they would need to go in my car, I would be safe for SIX Hundredweight about 1/3 tonne
Though how many bags is that ?

Jack McH

 

I've had 250 ltrs in my car before.......... not a big car either!

 

I will get Scrungee to mail me the stickers off his bags, and I will surupstisiosly stick them on our ones :D

Job's a good un

Jack McH

 

26 in stock at Sunderland, 61 in Durham!
Wish I needed some!

 

I had 14 x 50 litre bags from Homebase + 2 x 25 litre bags of seed compo & a bag of reduced sand (50p) from B&Q + the shopping + Mrs Scrungee in my car on my first trip!

The bags I bought (got 32 now) were both stickered as discontinued and I also confirmed they were discontinued (it's only the spud compo discontinued, not the likes of J.O. growbags). If they're not sitckered in store yet you can always monitor stock in local stores using the online checker for when they suddenly start shifting as an indicator.

I pass Homebase a few times a week and have been watching their stack of fading JO potato compost bags since October last year, "like a cat watching a mouse" according to my wife, because previous experience made me certain they would be reduced to clear at some stage and I wanted to be there when it happened.




P.S. This stuff was originally £3.99/bag or 3 for £10.


P.P.S. I can't discount the possibility that someone at the store where I've bought all mine from has gone 'over the top' with their reductions. I was fortunate enough to be at a B&Q when a member of staff in charge of the outdoor gardening area decided (possibly unilaterally) to reduce virtually all the plants down to 10p - 15p, so filled my car up whilst other shoppers were phoning for assistance in getting all their purchases home. Didn't see the guy doing the reducing for some time after that, and when he returned to work was never again out in the gardening area.

 

:-(
Called in Perth HB 3.99 Dunfermline HB 3.99 (daughter report EDIN HB 3.99)

Not all was lost though
After not being in my old engineers stomping ground for eight years, called in my favourite chippy
Deep fried Halibut in batter with chunky chips :-)

Jack McHammocklashing

 

I asked the duty manager in Dunfermline, about it, he went to his office and checked, NOTHING totally unaware of it so he says

Oh well I have started on the raised beds now so I will finish
I have a local supplier of TOP SOIL at £34 a tonne free delivery
Plus I have my mature horse muck at £2, large bag carry it yourself
So that is my job in the morning fill the horsemuck order the top soil

Jack McH

 

Your local Homebase stores/managers/procedures appear to be absolutely useless. If you click on the link in my post #7 on this thread above, you'll see that the maximum charge for this product is only £2.99 per bag (not the £3.99 your local stores are trying to charge you), and that's without any subsequent, unimplemented reductions for it being a discontinued product. But as manager(s) of your local Homebase stores appear to be trying to overcharge you, I suggest you complain.