Topsoil
 

Evening,

Can anyone recommend a decent brand of sterlised topsoil? i have recently bought bags from wickes, homebase aswell as b&q. All three are poor. I have found myself spending ages seiving the flipping rubble out.. Can anyone point me to the right direction on a stone free? :?:

I got a bag from aldi, and it was great, no gravel. But that was a week or so ago, so they might not have it anymore.
If you have one local, it might be worth checking.

Stones and gravel are no problem they won't walk on scived soul in the wild.

I have always stuck to Wickes. Yes, there are some little stones but as Gordon says, they don't cause any problems.
I tried Homebase but wasn't impressed so have just always kept with the Wickes sterilised topsoil.

I buy John Innes from the garden centre.

Thank you i will have alook into my local aldi tonight.


I experienced a horrible encounter awhile back with my leopard tortoise.. I'm just paranoid now if the stones will cause more injuries. Thanks all for replies highly appreciated!

Is John Innes safe for the little fellas?

I find it does depend on size of tortoise, age etc. My older ones wouldn't eat soil or if they did it would be negligible out in the garden. personally I wouldn't put john innes into a tortoise table with little ones cause they burrow and eat weeds with it on. Pure is best - like coco coir for that or natural sterilised. Easiest for me is coco coir and its manageable but equally I wouldn't buy loads for outside torts - normal soil is ok for that in MO. CB

Perhaps I should have said I do bake it first! Mainly because it is damp so I put it in the range to dry it out. It has never grown weeds or anything and I would imagine I am killing off micro-organisms.

Keep in mind my torts were 2 when they came.

I have introduced coir too, so trying that.

I take that into consideration thanks. He's only coming up to two years old. I have actually got the coir down at the moment, but just trying to keep it more soil more then anything.