Elaine wrote: Year before last, we bought several bag of general purpose compost from B & Q and it was dreadful stuff. Nothing thrived in it and little survived. Healthy seedlings transplanted into it turned yellow and wilted within a very short time and we had to re-sow everything. Needless to say, we haven't bought it again. We might have known though as there was alot of twigs and stuff not completely rotted down in it....even shredded plastic!!![]()
I had exactly the same problem - i bought 4 big bags of compost from B and Q used most of it for seedlings (which all died) and had a half bag left, when i went back to the half bag a few days later it had all rotted and gone white and horrible. I took the half bag back to B and Q and got a full refund on the 4 bags plus a packet of tomato seeds as a good will gesture - i would deifnately recommend going back to focus and asking for a refund it doesn't get you your plants back but does take away some of the bad taste.