Westland Jack's Magic multi-purpose compost 50L for £3.33 at B&Q 16 December 2021 at 9:23PM edited 16 December 2021 at 9:26PM in Greenfingered MoneySaving 6 replies 2K views

Mutton_Geoff

B&Q have Westland Jack's Magic multi-purpose compost (50L bags) for £3.33 if you buy 3 or multiples of 3.

Their website has it as a clearance product for £5 a bag but with an offer of "£3 for £12". However, if you put 3 in your basket, the total is just £9.99. Adding more puts the "per bag" price up unless you buy in multiples of 3 (6,9,12 etc). My garden centre has it on offer at £5.99 but as I need a load of it for planting up some new shrubs, I just popped round to my local B&Q and loaded the car up.

Not sure if this is a glitch on their website but I've got a dozen bags on my driveway now for less than £40.

https://www.diy.com/departments/westland-multi-purpose-compost-50l/5023377010170_BQ.prd

twopenny

Excellent!
Sadly for me it would be a 60 mile round trip so have to wait and hope post Christmas.
I may venture for a day out to the big garden centre in the hope they have a bargain.

maxsteam

This one isn't "magic" but it costs less .. 

https://www.diy.com/departments/verve-multi-purpose-compost-50l/1586175_BQ.prd

I am editing my post for two reasons. Firstly the Verve compost is cheap and cheerful while the Jack's Magic compost has reviews to suggest that it is a quality product. Secondly, Wickes are selling the magic compost for £2.50 per 50 litre bag.

https://www.wickes.co.uk/Westland-Jacks-Magic-All-Purpose-Compost-50L/p/249720

Obviously, the cheapest and best solution is to make your own. At the moment, I fill up my garden waste bin every couple of weeks then pay money to get what is essentially the same stuff back again after it has been shredded and decomposed.

maxsteam

Yup. I got a few bags from Wickes to put some bulbs in. It looks like good quality compost.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipPNizpheoLNRrH9X14KMkd3AWAogAAVzQBIHk6k=s1318-w786-h1318

Farway

maxsteam said:

Yup. I got a few bags from Wickes to put some bulbs in. It looks like good quality compost.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipPNizpheoLNRrH9X14KMkd3AWAogAAVzQBIHk6k=s1318-w786-h1318

Thanks, Wickes is nearer so may just pop along there next week

donemedosh

Bought wickes jacks magic compost last week got 4 bags £2.50 each. Did not have enough room in the boot to get any more. Went in today ALL GONE 2 full pallets just vanished.

maxsteam

The Wickes website will say how many bags your local branch has in stock. When I went, the website said that there were a couple of hundred bags available but, as my linked picture shows, there were only a few bags on display. I would guess that the rest were somewhere out of sight. Whether they will bring more into the display area is something to ask about. It may depend on how busy they are. This particular product is "not available for click and collect".