Wickes GP compost 2012

They got a bit sneaky though, the bags are now 70 ltr instead of 75.

 

I wonder if you got some of the old batch John. Or maybe it was bagged at a different location.

 

1 cu.metre = 1,000 litres = 1 metric tonne (mixing volume/weight, so depending on density of course - but 1 litre of water = 1kg, thus 1,000 litres - 1,000 kg which is a metric tonne)

1 metric tonne is broadly the same as a Ton in old money (I think a "tonne" is 10% heavier than a Ton)

Chuck this in the bin if of no interest though ...

 

I'll have to look at my B&Q bag tomorrow. I'm sure its 125 ltr. Yes the price has gone up but everything has. I frequently see some ridiculous price on something, snort, walk off and say You MUST be joking!!

 

I've been using A. Bowers Multi-purpose for years (only because that's what local garden centre sells).

I buy mine in the Autumn. I reckon the stuff they make during the Summer is much better (more "open" texture) that what they make in the Winter - or maybe the Winter stuff has been stacked 20 pallets high and compressed to death? They usually have a special offer in Autumn too (to shift stock)

 

Here's a picture of my Wickes compost that I bought 2 weeks ago; please note it's not as dry or lightly coloured as it appears, that was the flash on the camera..

 

A little prayer for the confused:-

IN THE BEGINNING was created the Imperial Ton
= 2240 pounds (lbs.)
= 20 Hundredweight (cwt) i.e. 1 cwt = 112 lbs.
AND YEA, when the Pilgrim Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock, they said
VERILY: One Hundredweight should be one hundred pounds and one Ton should be 2000 lbs.
THUS WAS CREATED the US Ton.
BUT SORELY DISPLEASED were the merchants and traders when they became aware that the colonials were making 10% on the side.
THUS IT CAME TO PASS that the British traders did declare that their galleons would, in future, also use measures of 2000 lbs, and declared that this measure should be named the Short Ton.
MANY MOONS PASSED, and the tribes of Europe did send their high priests to council one with the other, whereupon they begat the EEC (EU).
THE TRIBES OF THE CONTINENT did pour scorn upon the Ton and the Short Ton, and being more in number than the Britons did ordain that all nations should obey The New Commandment: Thou shalt worship the Tonne which equates to 1000 kilograms (kg).
THIS DID SORELY DISPLEASE THE BRITONS, since this new measure did contain 2205 lbs., but it came to pass that more tribes came to join the EEC and the Britons were obliged to pay homage to the Tonne.
THE EEC DID COMMAND that tablets of stone be carved, on which was writ:
1 IMPERIAL TON = 2240 lbs.
1 SHORT TON=1 US TON = 2000 lbs.
1 TONNE = 1000 kg = 2205 lbs.
THUS WAS THE CONFUSION CREATED.

Amen

 

Indeed! I was thinking of a short-ton when I said that a Tonne was 10% more than a (Short) Ton.

A Pucker Ton (the sort that Al Murray no doubt prefers!!) is 1.5% heavier than a Tonne, and the US lot can keep their Short-Change Ton!

 

That looks just like the good 'old' stuff I bought a couple of months ago in 75l bags.

Peat based based compost cannot be compared weight wise with topsoil as they have completely different densities - peat is 400 kg/m3 and dry loam 1249 kg/m3 (I've checked Wickes at 400 kg/m3 and J.I. at 800 kg/m3) plus they will almost certainly have different bulking factors. I used to deal with this sort of stuff years ago when contractors would try all sort of tricks to claim they'd removed more excavated material from site than had been allowed for.

 

I drop mine [from waist height] on each long-side, and then on each end, and that normally breaks up most of the compressed-lumps.