Wickes GP compost 2012

I bought a 70L bag of Wickes MPC today. (£4.07, although it is £12 for 4 bags)
To be honest is wasn't too bad, certainly better than the previous one.
I had earlier bought a 60L bag of Sure-Gro MPC from a local Farm Shop for £3. (£7.50 for 3 bags) When I opened it I found it to be very dark and loamy in texture.
I was a bit concerned that it might congeal once potted up and I would end up with a solid growing medium, so decided to combine the 2 bags to get loamy compost that was aerated. The blend looks quite good.
It had better be - the Tomatoes are now sitting in it.
The reason for only buying one bag of each was purely I wasn't sure about either - no damaged bags available.
I think I'll be back for a batch of each to continue the blending - lots of pots to fill.

 

Get Nick to call in as he passes by on his way to Ziggy. He seems to be a big strapping lad

 

Don't leave it too long:

 

Can you

Can you post a pic of what it looks like as I have some new money off vouchers for Wickes (and haven't used any for yonks because of their rubbish compost this year).

 

my local tesco had a few 55 litre bags of compost a few days ago

was in a rush so never had a close look, but if memory serves me right, I think they are westland multi purpose with John Innes ..... under £3 a bag

 

The three bags of Westland I bought a month ago were pale brown with little wood splinters in it - looked exactly the same as the picture below posted by Loofah earlier in the thread ,and one posted by Merle . I wonder if Westland also make the Wickes compost ? I'll stick with B n Q this year lovely stuff

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh294/bigloofah/2012-03-12092516.jpg

 

Have Wickes changed their compost back to the old formula as was reported in a post on this thread some time ago?

Wickes have sent £5 off (no minimum spend) vouchers as a farewell gift to those who were in the now defunct myWickes loyalty card scheme, so I had a look around the other day to see what we can spend our vouchers on (2 accounts so £10 of free stuff) and noticed the signs stating it was unsuitable for seed sowing have been removed.

Anybody bought some recently? If not I might email Wickes CS. It still doesn't include seed sowing amongst use on their website http://www.wickes.co.uk/invt/200246..._source=RatingsAndReviews&utm_content=Default

or
http://www.wickes.co.uk/invt/200246..._source=RatingsAndReviews&utm_content=Defaulthttp://reviews.wickes.co.uk/9987-en_gb/200246/reviews.htm

 

Maybe they would slit a bag for you (and other shoppers) to check?

My local garden centre has a slit-bag [on display] for each of their compost types.

 

So does my local Farmshop/Nursery. Good practice IMO - if it looks the business, customers will buy it,
Jenny