Composts - Vital Earth?

[Nikki Giles]

We are looking at buying a pallet of compost for the spring seed sowing and Vital Earth looks good value. What do you use? Is it any good? Any comments before we plunge? I know it got bad reviews a few years ago but apparently it's a new product from Sept 2017. 

Thanks, Nikki at FlintShare.

[tom okane]

We have tried all sorts and ended up going with klassmans. Good side is its very reliable and great quality. Bad side is its got peat and its imported from Germany! Fairly cheap bought by the pallet from a company in n of England. Call david 01175821800. Cheers, Tom

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On 14 Feb 2018, at 12:28, Nikki Giles <nikki...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

We are looking at buying a pallet of compost for the spring seed sowing and Vital Earth looks good value. What do you use? Is it any good? Any comments before we plunge? I know it got bad reviews a few years ago but apparently it's a new product from Sept 2017. 

Thanks, Nikki at FlintShare.

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[Gary Mitchell]

Hi Nikki, I can’t really comment on the Vital Earth stuff, but for a few years we have been doing our research and for the last couple of years ‘we’ here at Cultivate in collaboration with Edible Mach and The Llani Growers group have ordered the Melcourt Peat Free stuff – as detailed below.  Last year we had enough orders to order somewhere in the region of 10 pallets full and then this was re-distributed across Mid Wales – certainly the quality was good enough for people to come back for more this year!

 

Trying to organise a bulk order of Melcourt peat-free compost again this year by joining up with the Mach growers, (provided I can organise collection from Mach - see below)

 

There is choice of either  Sylvagrow Sustainable or Sylvagrow Organic (contains only organic fertilisers) in 50litre bags - see https://www.melcourt.co.uk/products/gardener/peat-free-composts/

 

The cost, if you order now, should be roughly £3.50/bag for sustainable and £4/bag for organic PLUS costs associated with transporting from Mach, which could add around £1.00+ per bag (still a lot less than rrp). Delivery should be at  the end of January. I need to know numbers early next week. If you don't want to commit yourself now, the aim is to have the surplus bags available through the Cultivate shop (but they will cost you more). 

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