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Coir - JJB - 04-02-2024
Has anyone found a reasonably priced source for coir. My last year's source of Poundland and Wilko seem to be a nonstarter this year. Ebay are taking the Michael, selling what used to be a £1 10L brick for £5.99!
RE: Coir - Veggie - 04-02-2024
https://www.toolstation.com/coco-grow-coir-compost/p31339?msclkid=4a7d9b1be2691fc1dfa0fea479a7572e&gclsrc=ds
RE: Coir - JJB - 04-02-2024
Thanks Veggie.
Spending a dull drizzly afternoon trawling the Web has come up with the cheapest at 75L for £11.20 free p&p
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/385531643011
I'll need some perlite too so will have to cost it up to see if it might be better buying in peat free compost (if i go peat free), but that won't be half as much fun.
20L perlite free p&p for £13 on Ebay.
RE: Coir - Veggie - 04-02-2024
https://www.diy.com/departments/coco-coir-coco-grow-75l-5kg-peat-freee-compost/5060886330009_BQ.prd
B&Q £11.99 free delivery.
RE: Coir - toomanytommytoes - 04-02-2024
Can't believe how much the price of coir has rocketed in recent years. We were buying the big blocks for £5 or less back in 2020.
Cheapest I can find is Elixir Gardens, though only if you order multiple blocks - 5 x 70L blocks for £45 for example. Use the newsletter code elixir10 to get 10% off. Delivery is free.
RE: Coir - toomanytommytoes - 04-02-2024
(04-02-2024, 06:04 PM)JJB Wrote: Thanks Veggie.I got 100L of perlite from eBay £23.50 delivered last week. Smaller bags are always way overpriced.
Spending a dull drizzly afternoon trawling the Web has come up with the cheapest at 75L for £11.20 free p&p
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/385531643011
I'll need some perlite too so will have to cost it up to see if it might be better buying in peat free compost (if i go peat free), but that won't be half as much fun.
20L perlite free p&p for £13 on Ebay.
RE: Coir - JJB - 04-02-2024
(04-02-2024, 07:03 PM)Veggie Wrote: https://www.diy.com/departments/coco-coir-coco-grow-75l-5kg-peat-freee-compost/5060886330009_BQ.prd
B&Q £11.99 free delivery.
That's worth looking at.
RE: Coir - toomanytommytoes - 04-02-2024
Forgot to add the links:
Coir - https://elixirgardensupplies.co.uk/product/coir-organic-compost-blocks-10l-70l/
Perlite - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154244049352?var=454346629521
RE: Coir - Veggie - 04-02-2024
I've never used perlite but I do have a sack of vermiculite leftover from when the Aga was installed. I mix some of that into the coir when I remember.