Compost

starlight09

Does anyone else notice how the quality of compost has deteriorated. I've tried a few bags and they're rubbish, stones, bits of trees and what looks like straw.

magicbastarder

any compost in particular?
we never buy general purpose compost, but get farmyard manure instead, due to the peat harvesting issue.

i did once find a workman's glove in a bag though.

starlight09

magicbastarder wrote: »

any compost in particular?
we never buy general purpose compost, but get farmyard manure instead, due to the peat harvesting issue.

i did once find a workman's glove in a bag though.

Oh I better not mention names, I could get into trouble.
I do a lot of seed sowing, growing flowers and plants mostly.
In relation to the farmyard manure, I'm very interested. Do you put it around your shrubs in the garden? Is it ready to use when you get it? How do you store it?

Lumen

My local supplier for mulchy stuff is King. I recently bought a few bulk bags of wood chips from them and that worked out well.

http://www.greenking.ie/products.html

I've not used their peat-free compost, but they do have piles of it at their recycling facility and it looks OK.

Not convinced about the "chemical free" claim, don't see how they could guarantee that with the widespread use/abuse of glyphosate.

edit: I'd also be interested in finding a supplier of rotted manure in Wicklow/South Dublin. There are loads of horsey places but I've read that you need a trailer
to take it away and the fresh stuff is burny.

edit #2: there's this place in Cork, €133 per cubic metre bag
http://geeup.ie/