Poor results from multi-purpose soil, have you?

[meandmyallotment]

At the start of the season I purchased a lot of compost from the same supplier (see pic). Now I’m discovering that the compost wasn’t worth the money and has only helped to stunt growth and spoil an entire crop.

It’s very hard to read this material. It looks dry when it isn’t and looks wet when inches below it’s bone dry. It appears to be only full of pieces of wood which hasn’t been left to rot down enough. I wouldn’t normally warn anyone to stay away from a product but with this one – give it a wide birth.

Produced by ‘Westland’, the product is marked ‘multi-purpose compost’. I would be interested to hear what everyone else thinks of this product.

[glallotments]

I don't think that poor compost is confined to a particular brand. We have some tomatoes growing in the same compost (same brand different bag) as some other tomato plants. One lot is pathetic and the other growing strongly.

Buying compost seems to be a lotterey these days

[Shallot Man]

Have found a nursery that is now selling the the potting compost they use themselves. Only having just bought some, it is too earlier to pass a comment.