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RE: Special Offers - toomanytommytoes - 04-08-2025
B&Q have 66.5L (strange number, I know!) bags of Westland peat free compost for £8. https://www.diy.com/departments/westland-john-innes-peat-free-multi-purpose-compost-66-5l/5023377022456_BQ.prd
That's not a particularly good price, but they also currently have a deal for 15% off a spend of £75+ if you're in the B&Q Club (which just means signing up for an account with them, no payment required). When you sign up to the club you will get an e-mail for a £5 discount code.
If you order 10 bags it comes to £80, minus the 15% makes that £68, then the £5 discount code brings it to £63. So that's 665L of compost for £63, which works out at £4.73 per 50L bag (if the bags were 50L). And delivery on my order was free!
The 15% off ends tomorrow.
It's a pretty good compost, I didn't find much or any plastic in it, so I don't think it has any green waste compost in, or if it does it's been screened better than other brands.
RE: Special Offers - JJB - 05-08-2025
(04-08-2025, 07:37 PM)toomanytommytoes Wrote: B&Q have 66.5L (strange number, I know!) bags of Westland peat free compost for £8. https://www.diy.com/departments/westland-john-innes-peat-free-multi-purpose-compost-66-5l/5023377022456_BQ.prd
That's not a particularly good price, but they also currently have a deal for 15% off a spend of £75+ if you're in the B&Q Club (which just means signing up for an account with them, no payment required). When you sign up to the club you will get an e-mail for a £5 discount code.
If you order 10 bags it comes to £80, minus the 15% makes that £68, then the £5 discount code brings it to £63. So that's 665L of compost for £63, which works out at £4.73 per 50L bag (if the bags were 50L). And delivery on my order was free!
The 15% off ends tomorrow.
It's a pretty good compost, I didn't find much or any plastic in it, so I don't think it has any green waste compost in, or if it does it's been screened better than other brands.
Thanks TMTT, it sounds really good value, although I'm not likely to take up the offer. Storage would be a problem and it's the wrong time of year for me.
RE: Special Offers - toomanytommytoes - 05-08-2025
Have you not got any room under the bed?
Luckily we have a bit of covered decking that I can stack it under so it keeps dry over winter. That should stop it from breaking down too much, and preserve the nutrients. The garden centre stuff sits outside all year round and gets soaked. I have been looking for good quality peat free at a reasonable price for a while since I'll be propagating a lot of perennials over winter. Most peat free is priced at £8.99 per bag at garden centres round here, it just seems to be getting more and more expensive.
RE: Special Offers - JJB - 08-08-2025
(05-08-2025, 01:39 PM)toomanytommytoes Wrote: Have you not got any room under the bed?
No, but there is P's workshop, that might do.
RE: Special Offers - Mark_Riga - 08-08-2025
While out in Merseyside I went to the loo in Asda in Walton and noticed their compost was £10 for 3x40L bags, about £4.20 for 50L. No idea what it is like