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24-08-2009, 09:08 AM
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Egg
Join Date: Aug 2009
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Wickes Top Soil
Wickes at the moment are selling 5bags of 25L top soil for £12. Is this soil any good?
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24-08-2009, 09:22 AM
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Location: Leeds
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Well B&Q are selling their top soil for 35l at £3.48 a sack.........Im not going to do the maths for you.........but I can tell you I think theirs is very good(B&Q) and is also sterilised,Don't know anything about wicks Topsoil.
Sorry oops forgot to say B&Q's is buy 4 get one free too !! Dawn |
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24-08-2009, 09:33 AM
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Egg
Join Date: Aug 2009
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Have you got a link please Dawn for the 4 for 3 offer please?
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24-08-2009, 10:56 AM
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i find B&Q's really terrible - goes very stoney and seems to be full of hair !
I use Homebase's now which is nice and sandy and keeps fluffy
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24-08-2009, 11:08 AM
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Never had that problem.....maybe you just had a bad batch?
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24-08-2009, 12:07 PM
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I prefer the soil from homebase too, I tried B&Q for a while,as said it's hairy(!), and I found quite a large piece of glass in one sack
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24-08-2009, 02:48 PM
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Egg
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im using B&Q topsoil to grow my weeds in as im still waiting to get my tort and its so fll of stones more like grit than soil :s x
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24-08-2009, 04:00 PM
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never tried wickes but sounds like a good amount for £12! wish I'd of known earlier, i bought mine from focus yesterday, but it was Levingtons 20L for £3.50, good stuff! x
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24-08-2009, 05:43 PM
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if you need bricks, think of wickes
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09-09-2009, 11:34 AM
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i fell for the wickes one, its full of stones and hair like things dont do it!!
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