my seed compost looks and feels wrong - can someone help?

can someone spare a min? my seed compost looks and feels wrong, my novice alarm bells are ringing. its very lumpy with big fibrous bits in it and bits that look like vermiculate but arnt.

should i return it and go with john innes no 1. (i am only used to value multipuropse so maybe thats the problem )

 

Are you sure the "bits that look like vermiculite but arn't" are not actually ant eggs!
If so I personally would take it back - there's enough of the little B******* without helping them along!

 

Seed compost should be of a gritty texture.
I would return it as GCC says

 

eww yuk. i will arrange for wilkos to collect it :( so it should be fine and gritty?

 

Does anyone actually buy "seed compost" these days.

I've never used it, just use multi purpose all the time, sometimes add a bit of extra sand.

 

Yep, same here. I normally run it through a sieve

 

duh how thick am i? its called multi purpose coz it is multipurpose

 

I think nearly all value multipurpose is like this. As Freddy says, just sieve it I'm sure it will be fine then. I think the other bits are water storage capsules a lot of multi purpose composts contain these now.

 

I'm sure no pun was intended Pete

 

Sorry Val, couldn't resist.

 

Last year here on GC there were many complaints about the quality of multi-purpose compost from various outlets. CRG if you back track through the threads you will find them around last summer. Many had downgraded, which is why they were full of lumpy bits.

The only exception I found was B & Q's new Verve, which seemed okay until I discovered they've reduced there screening. I repotted house plants with it and had to put up with soil gnats, the larvae of which is difficult to get rid of.

 

Last year I heard tales from a few different sources that councils were selling their 'sterilised' compost onto the the various names in compost. Nothing unusual there, except word is that it transpired that by 'sterilised' they meant that they'd washed it with a residual herbicide.

 

Not sure what you are saying clue, if its what I think it doesn't make any sense
What was it intended for?