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the-mango

On this note, and not as serious, I have exactly the same compost and I found the sole of a shoe in my compost today!! Little shocked. I don't think much of their compost and found B&Q this year to be better and less 'woody'

Niv

the-mango wrote: »

On this note, and not as serious, I have exactly the same compost and I found the sole of a shoe in my compost today!! Little shocked. I don't think much of their compost and found B&Q this year to be better and less 'woody'

I got some B and Q compost a few weeks ago (their new 'in house' brand, I forget the name, something like revive maybe?) and it was very woody and I ended up having fungus grow from it after about a week, most odd. Its ok though, seedlings coming through nicely (conciderign all the rain I am amazed tbh )

Niv

suisidevw

I have got quite a bit of the Verve by B and Q, and it's actually really good

Niv

suisidevw wrote: »

I have got quite a bit of the Verve by B and Q, and it's actually really good

I must of got a dud batch. Knowing how compost is produced, i can understand how it can happen. Good to know it can be good, when I need some more I will give it another chance.

lizzyb1812

B&Q have had good reviews for their compost - the purple and white packs - for years and I've used it with great success and no extras! I think the Verve stuff is the same just rebadged.

Niv

lizzyb1812 wrote: »

B&Q have had good reviews for their compost - the purple and white packs - for years and I've used it with great success and no extras! I think the Verve stuff is the same just rebadged.

The old branded B & Q stuff I have had previously was completly different to the verve stuff i picked up a couple of weeks ago, literally chalk and cheese. The old B & Q stuff looked like your regular multipurpose compost (fairly finely sived) where the verve stuff was more like soil improver (woody not sived down to the normal size I previously got) and no I didnt pick up soil improver by mistake (before anyone suggests that). But again, composting is a batch process, it will not always be uniform and also not from the same supplier.

Niv

tiredwithtwins

suisidevw wrote: »

I have got quite a bit of the Verve by B and Q, and it's actually really good

me too, but ive found that in some of my pots that ive used it in there are tiny mushrooms growing ... they are plants that ive grown from seed on window sill (and are still there) so havent been contaminated from anything else.

Leif

Niv wrote: »

I got some B and Q compost a few weeks ago (their new 'in house' brand, I forget the name, something like revive maybe?) and it was very woody and I ended up having fungus grow from it after about a week, most odd. Its ok though, seedlings coming through nicely (conciderign all the rain I am amazed tbh )

Niv

If you mean small mushrooms, they will do no harm, and in fact could do good. What you don't want is grubs, larvae and adult insects. Such as the aphids I found on the pepper seedling from Longacres. Grrrr. I hope I found and eradicated them before they had spread to all my seedlings. I've only ever had aphids when shop bought plants were contaminated.

Davesnave

Leif wrote: »

What you don't want is grubs, larvae and adult insects. Such as the aphids I found on the pepper seedling from Longacres. Grrrr. I hope I found and eradicated them before they had spread to all my seedlings. I've only ever had aphids when shop bought plants were contaminated.

You are probably not talking about this guy, but to be fair, I'm including the link so that people can see he doesn't sell peppers.

http://www.longacreplants.co.uk/

If you've had aphids before, don't you think you might overwinter a few somewhere? I always get them on my seed raised peppers and assume they survive in the conservatory somewhere.

Niv

Leif wrote: »

If you mean small mushrooms, they will do no harm, and in fact could do good. What you don't want is grubs, larvae and adult insects. Such as the aphids I found on the pepper seedling from Longacres. Grrrr. I hope I found and eradicated them before they had spread to all my seedlings. I've only ever had aphids when shop bought plants were contaminated.

Thanks, I know the small mushrooms do no harm. I didnt once say the compost was of poor standard, just said that I preferred the old stuff.