Or, “It’s peat free compost. But not as we (at the Hut) know it.”
The LHS Publicity Officer believes that every time a member buys a horticultural something from the supermarket that could have been bought at the Hut, the Hut Fairy dies a little.
I’d been unable to get to the Hut for the past few weekends and urgently needed peat free compost. My local supermarket had an apparently splendid offer on peat free, and like a mug, I fell for it.
If I’d wanted to mulch a veg bed or create a path of bark chippings, this compost would have been ideal. I wanted to pot on and take softwood cuttings. So I had to sieve it. Twice. Like school, this was boring but educational. It may have been free of peat but this compost had quite a few other ingredients. Glass, plastic (some quite large shards, identifiably from pots), ceramics, scraps of metallic labels.
By the time I’d got rid of the scrap and mulched the beds with wood bark, my ‘bargain’ compost was actually costing more than the Hut’s peat free (£7.50 for 40L.) A sad mistake, but I won’t be repeating it. From now on, I will buy my peat free only from the Hut.
Forget the health of the Hut fairy. This is pure self-interest.
