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Compost & Bark

Find bulk bags of compost at Gardeners Dream to support your flowers, hanging baskets, raised beds and more with nutrient rich organic matter. Our range of multi-purpose compost includes some great peat-free, moisture locking formulas that are ideal for gardening. Mix into your topsoil and watch your plants grow! An easy way to source (and pleasant way to work with) farmyard manure, some of our compost can even suppress weed growth. Whatever your soil type and the plants you are growing this year, you can find gravels, soils, and compost carefully selected by our horticulturalists on this page. Don't forget the free delivery guarantee with every order.

Easier Than Composting Food Waste

Making your own compost requires carefully balancing organic matter in the right conditions. But you can achieve the same effects - healthy plants all year round - with the right compost from Gardeners Dream's range. Rather than relying on food scraps for nutrients, you can find the perfect product that has everything your topsoil needs - just add water and watch your borders grow.

Our horticulturalists have selected the best composts, from bags of potting mixes to bark topsoils to peat-free compost discs, ensuring that they work well in gardens across the UK. These composts are ideal for our trees, shrubs, and varied garden plants from ferns to climbing plants. View the full range of plant varieties available at Gardeners Dream before you purchase your compost - you'll get free delivery on the entire order in your basket either way!

 

Clean Farmyard Manure

You don't need to source fresh farmyard manure to treat your garden beds to healthy multi-purpose compost. Slow to release nutrients and rich with microorganisms to improve the condition of your soil, manure is often a great way to compost your garden. But it's not always easy to source fresh, and the smell won't please the neighbours!

At Gardeners Dream, we have a range of manure bulk bags and composts on offer in our shop to suit your garden. With additional features, such as being able to suppress weed growth, these rich manure composts can be used in planters, hanging basket containers, and beds. Our rose products in particular enjoy dressing with a little manure-rich compost!

 

Add Compost to Your Garden with Gardeners Dream!

From moisture-retaining composts to make your fruit trees and flowers grow like crazy, to peat-free formulas made from organic matter to make your whole garden flourish. We have it all in our range at Gardeners Dream.

Browse through all the compost soil options in our shop to see what we have on sale. Whether you need an all-purpose topsoil for all the plants in one flower bed, or the right nutrients for great seedling growth, we have something that will do the job. You can also uncover decorative bark as well as grits, sands and gravel to suit all soil types on this page.

Don't forget that we offer free delivery on all our compost mixes, gardening tools, and garden plants!

 

FAQs

What are the 3 types of compost?

There are numerous compost products, each designed to offer the right nutrients for a specific use (e.g. potting or germinating seeds). Three main types are manure-based, organic matter (e.g. bark and food waste), and vermicompost which is made from earthworms.

For most gardening needs, a peat-free multi-purpose option from Gardeners Dream will do the trick.

Is compost the same as soil?

Soil is typically natural soil from the earth - you already have this in your garden. A compost product, peat-free or otherwise, is a nutrient-rich soil that can be used to enrich your garden as a topsoil or potting mix. Shop our range of compost at Gardeners Dream.

What is best for garden compost?

To create garden compost, the best ingredients are an equal mix of green and brown products. Green might include clippings from plants and vegetable scraps, while brown might include bark, manure, and even eggshells. If you can't wait for your compost to develop into a rich topsoil, just add a compost bag to the basket at Gardeners Dream.

What are 3 things you shouldn't compost?

Pet droppings (from cats and dogs in particular) should be avoided, while chicken and farmyard manure is acceptable. You should also avoid adding dairy to your compost as well as meat/fish. These items rot and attract wildlife. Stick to small amounts of eggshell instead! Of course, the easier way to create a rich topsoil is to browse our compost product range and add the one you need to the basket. There's free delivery on every order and you might just catch a sale too.

How do I make my own garden compost?

You can make compost in your garden to enrich your soil by composting waste food, animal manure (if available), and plant waste. Just make sure you use an equal amount of nitrogen-rich and carbon-rich products to create a good compost. You can spread this compost as a topsoil, in beds and hanging basket planters, or mix it in to the soil.

What is the best compost to have?

Some people swear by 'Gro Sure' but at Gardeners Dream, we have a range of products so you can choose the best soil for your garden. Apply the product to the topsoil and let the nutrients soak in. You can't go wrong with a traditional all-purpose option.

How big is 50l bag of compost?

A 50 litre bag of soil compost is enough to fill roughly 5x 28cm planters, or spread as topsoil product over a medium sized bed. It is the standard compost bag size.

What is the difference between potting compost and garden compost?

Potting compost is designed for growing plants in pots and seedlings - it has a lighter texture and a carefully calculated array of nutrients. It is great for planters, hanging baskets, and similar. Compost can either be purchased or made at home by composting waste food. It has a denser texture and is best mixed into the existing soil of beds and borders to improve the quality.

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