Not so impressed with B&Q multi purpose compost!

[GlenT]

Bad experience with B&Q compost

Whether a bad batch or not I share the experience with B&Q peat free compost. I bought 3 bags and not only is the texture poor, even the bizzie lizzies are struggling! A real slip-up on the quality control. Not that B&Q would care much (past experience is that complaints (verbal, email or letter) are ignored).

[roitelet]

Can't get decent compost here, or at least what I call decent. I'm a John Innes girl. So, I use a mixture of 50/50 good garden soil and home made compost, both sifted. OK so I have to weed the pots/boxes and I do some times get some damping off, but, on the whole things do better than in the compost I can buy

[gbripon]

B & Q Multicompost - rubbish

I would't use B&Q MPC even if they paid me! Bought it last year as it was cheapest but it was rubbish, full of large bits of hard stuff which didn't break down. The bits I was able to use didn't hold moisture at all. Another allotmenteer on the same site had similar problems with his. We reckoned it must have been a duff lot at the local B&Q. Changed to Westlands and had no problems whatsoever.

How I agree. Bought 3 bags on offer last year and never seen any other like it. Full of twigs and hard bits - totally unsuitable to be called multi-compost. Had to throw most of it onto the garden as not at all suitable for potting up.

[Aberdeenplotter]

I used B&Q MPC last year and have been using it again this year with my exhibition onions and leeks. I have had absolutely no problems with it whatever. IMO, it's as good as anything on the market at the moment

[salome2001]

I must have been lucky. i bought a 125L bag last week and have been using it for potting on my seedlings, it seems fine. Except that I have no idea how I got it in the trolley... it seemed to double in weight when I tried to lift it out of the trolley and into the car... in the rain of course.... had to play helpless female and ask a passing bloke to help me.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Of course it may just be that the others were unlucky. For sure there is a lot of rubbish out there being sold as compost

[rustylady]

I've had no problems with it. Sure, you get the odd bit of hard woody stuff, but you do with most bagged compost.