4 x 70L packs of Peat Free Coconut Coir Compost

I buy tons of stuff through Amazon -tons in every sense of the word. So I thought to myself "I wonder if I can get compost on Amazon?" I am fed up of lugging huge dirty wet bales of potting compost in and out of my car -so I found myself looking at this product. I am completely amazed by it!One of these bales is small and light enough to pick up with one hand. Chuck it into a wheelbarrow with 30 litres of water, and a few hours (and a couple of mixings-up) later it has absorbed the water and the wheelbarrow is piled high with fresh, light, fibrous compost.I have used two of these to lighten up the rather heavy soil in my greenhouse -and I hope to improve my pepper crop this year. The soil certainly has a lighter and airier structure with this mixed in. It's good to know that, being coir, there will be no weed seeds lurking within. It feels like a very clean product.Patience is needed. The packet says it will expand "in minutes" and this certainly is not the case -it took hours to soak up the water. It needs a mix-up once or twice to get an even distribution of water in the compost, but that is no hardship.Fantastic value too, compared with the cost of 60 l of heavy and difficult to handle compost from your average garden centre.Very happy with this productHighly recommendedAA

Lightweight, so much easier that lugging heavy compost from the garden centre! Swells up well in the wheelbarrow

Extremely satisfied with the product and the post sale customer service by Ironmongery Online!Due to a mistake entirely of my own making (I put my old address as the delivery address), I was concerned that the item would be left in limbo, either not being signed for or signed for and there being no way of retrieving it from the old address resulting in a maze of phone calls/emails to possibly arrange a refund or re-order and a be hit with a delay in receiving the product.No such fear! Step in Jo from Ironmongery Online who went beyond the call of duty by taking over ownership of the issue without me even asking. Jo was in contact with the couriers and then filled in the necessary paperwork to stop the delivery and re-schedule it to my current address. I was kept informed of progress etc all the way through this process with emails that were informative, succinct and unobtrusive.I felt strongly that this should be shouted out aloud as I have found many merchants, both on amazon and mainly elsewhere, end all pretence of being customer focused once a sale has been closed. I'm actually finding that I first look to see if this company has any of items I want as I am sure there will be no complications with the order.As for the product...... "It does what its says on the tin", its compost that is 60ltrs in capacity once water is added, and contains no Peat! Its doing nicely as an ingredient of the potting mix for my self watering container vegetable garden.

This is the third time I have purchased this compost and have previously been very happy with it. It is very good compost at a very reasonable price however this time it arrived unwrapped as 4 coir bricks in a cardboard box. Last 2 purchases were sealed individually, as pictured in the item listing, allowing easier storage and keeping each brick dry until needed (even if stored outside). This time I will have to store indoors in the original box and it will be much more messy getting each brick from the box. Having said that it is still very convenient, reasonably economical and functions well in garden containers.

I only needed a small amount to plant up some pots for my small city balcony. Directions say put in a large container and add water which would've been infinitely easier but I had to hack off layers of the block which got messy. But once I got going it was doable and if you prepare adequately there shouldn't be too much hassle. Used warm water as someone recommended and it hydrated very quickly. Not too much volume expansion though. When potted, the top layer tends to dry out very quickly. Still waiting for a lot of my seedlings to propagate so we shall see as to the quality.

I actually bought two of these blocks, as I was a bit uncertain as to how much compost it would become. But I only needed one, so the other is a good reserve for next summer.As I didn't have a wheel barrow to prepare it in, I used two refuse sacks (one inside the other for strength), and it worked perfectly! Just poured in the required amount of water and left it to dissolve.The end result was a very wet compost - but I put it in the intended planter anyway and added the plants. After a few days the surplus water had drained away, leaving a wonderful compost that my clematis plants must love, judging by how quickly they grew in it.This is an ideal product for city people like me, who don't have large garden sheds to store compost in. But please note that 60 litres of compost is quite bulky (it equals two of those very large 30 litre sacks sold by garden centres) so one shouldn't dissolve one of these blocks until one has use for all or most of it.

I've always tried to buy peat free compost but find that it's not always available, locally, and I nearly did my back a serious mischief last year trying to lift a 40 litre bag out of the car. So this is ideal for me.I've had people be sniffy about coir but I'm using it to get plugs and bulbs going for a few weeks before I plant them out and I've always found it very good. I'm going to try it on some seeds next - it does have some big lumps in it but it's easy enough to pick them out.The only word of warning is that this brick of compost is just that. A brick. It's hard as rock and I don't have a wheel barrow and the full brick is slightly too big for my large bucket style trug. I have to use an edging tool to try and split it so that i can do half at a time. But, otherwise, i'm on to my 3rd brick now and loving it.Was a bit amused by the packing though. I ordered a single brick and then 2 together and they came in a box absolutely smothered in FRAGILE - HANDLE WITH CARE tape. Really??? You could throw this stuff and a plate glass window and I suspect it would be the coir that comes off best.....