RocketGro Omdömen 78

I have had 18 years experience of allotmenteering, and have used peat free multipurpose compost of different manufacture for the last 6 years. This year our allotment shop is selling Rocketgro.
It is absolutely APPALLING!
Sets like a rock in 24hrs. Very low or zero germination of seeds.
To be fair, Rocketgro did reply rapidly to my queries and photographic evidence. Their comment was that it says on the back of the bag that they do not recommend it for seed sowing.
It should be clearly stated on all their advertising that 'multipurpose' does not mean what it says, and that it fails with seeds.
I have bought 2 bags of other manufacturers peat free multipurpose, and within 4 days, seedlings have emerged.
This has cost me £50 in purchase of Rocket gro and lost seeds.

The production of Rocket Grow meets a lot of key things for me such as peat free, sustainable and chemical free (John Innes has chemicals in it though doesn't it?). My experience with using the "Stage 2/3 Multipurpose Compost" has not been consistent. My tomato seedlings, when potted on from a seed compost, have done well. They were 3 to 4 inches in height when re-potted and have continued to prosper. However, my cucumber and courgette seedlings have not survived being potted on into the Stage 2/3 mix. They lost vigor and have all but perished now. I have started germination again with fresh seed in a seed compost but I am now wary of using Stage 2/3 to pot them on. The first time round they had only just got past their cotyledon stage leaves so I may try bringing them on longer in the seed compost. Maybe the Stage 2/3 is a bit too much of a shock for very young seedlings? I will try the Rocket Grow Stage 1, Seed and Cutting Compost and follow on with the Stage 2/3 to see if this helps seedlings survive. Some advice on the web site about when to pot on would help.

The Stage 2/3 mix does need a different approach to watering as I found a dry, crusty top layer formed whilst deeper in the pot the compost was still very wet so the danger of over-watering is there if you do not check carefully.

Rocket Grow seems to be a different beast to many composts. I will persevere with it to see if I can master its use.

Lovely honest compost. The mulch is outstanding

Have been using, and spreading the word about Rocket Gro products, for several years now.

Excellent product, environmentally sound, achieving superb results: healthy plants in very healthy soil.

Have most recently had 100% seed germination with seed and cutting compost in readiness for two new raised beds full of rocket gro medium.

Excellent customer service.

What an incredible product - Magic Mulch really does what it claims to do and RocketGro are a great company to support with fabulous customer service. Thank you

The peat free compost is the best compost I have ever bought. The texture is beautiful, it works well in pots and has improved my veg beds. Will buy again.

Dreadful compost. Tried last year with poor results but thought I'd give it another go. Plants die, wilt or fail to thrive. Nowhere near the performance I used to get with my old compost, been using peat free for a least a decade. Expect garden centres get this cheap hence why so many now stock it

I used Magic Mulch in my garden and found it does exactly what it says on the website. Not only does it work well to suppress weeds, repel slugs, reduce the need for watering and add nutrients but it looks good too. As well as using it all over the garden I used it as a top dressing this autumn on the pots I planted with spring bulbs and had no problem with squirrels digging up the pots to eat the bulbs. The bulbs are all coming through now and look very healthy.
I was so impressed with Magic Mulch I recommended its use in a large garden where I work as a volunteer and other volunteers have commented that the amount of weeding is significantly less and the beds look great when they have been mulched. It is also easy to spread and as you only need to add a thin layer, it goes a long way.
I have also used the Peat Free Multi Purpose Compost with added John Innes and been very pleased with the results. I have read some of the negative comments and think some people do not realise that peat free composts generally are more difficult to work with and you have to be far more careful regarding watering and feeding. This applies to ALL peat free composts. I have been very impressed with the quality of all the Rocketgro products I have used to date.

In recently purchased rocket grow multi purpose compost because my usual brand was out of stock. I expected a quality product by the description and the fact it seemed to be organic.

I was very disappointed in the compost. I found it lumpy, with large bits in and hard. It also appeared to form a white film on the surface. At first I thought I had inadvertently overwatered the compost, but on checking it found the compost to be bone dry, quite hard and crusty on the surface.

It dries out quickly and doesn’t change colour when it dries, making it hard to detect. I will not buy it again I thought it was very poor quality.

We used a mixture of Beds & Borders and Container & Basket compost in our raised beds and pots, and it has worked wonders! Our anemones look fantastic, and our cosmos are still going strong in late October.

We ordered a pallet online, which was neatly delivered to our front door. Excellent customer service, and the website was easy to use.

Amazing peat-free compost! Environmentally friendly too. I highly recommend it and will be buying again.

I had a great experience with RocketGro! The customer service was excellent—Toby was incredibly friendly and knowledgeable, answering all my questions about composting as I was purchasing for my parents. The product itself is fantastic, and I’ll definitely be buying from them again! Highly recommend!

We've tried several company's peat-free products but Rocketgro is by far the best. The consistency and texture are excellent and we've now switched to buy their Peat-free multi-purpose compost and Peat-free mulch. Our tomatoes did brilliantly this summer and the mulch is great for beds.
The closed-circle sustainability of how Rocketgro is produced makes you believe there are still good guys in the world.

I bought 18 Rocket Grow, Grow bags for the first time. The experience has been shockingly poor. I've used grow bags for years for tomatoes + cucumbers + always have good results/ healthy plants + plentiful crops. However, this year with Rocket Grow, the plants growth is stunted, the leaves are yellow+ purple + the fruit has not set. The few tomatoes that have been produced are thick skinned + tiny. The Cucumber foliage is sparse + yellow. The Cucumber fruit are failing to set.
Never again will I buy Rocket Grow products. I naively thought that by buying a more expensive product, it would be better.
I have also noticed a lot of gnats emerging .
I have tried to contact Rocket Grow Customer Service by phone + email, but no response to either.

I was very disappointed when my local garden centre (Sunshine) stopped stocking peat-free Sylvagrow, which I had been using successfully for some years. They recommended Rocketgro instead but I will never buy it for my containers again. It seems impossible to get the watering right. It very quickly dries to a crisp at the top, but is it moist enough underneath? Or actually soggy? How can I tell unless I dig down a bit every time I water? Who wants to do that? The advice from Rocketgro seems to be to water little and often (against all standard gardening advice) and/or to add a layer of something else on top (to counter the failings of their own product)! Please, Sunshine, bring back Sylvagrow. [I should add that I have been using Rocketgro for several months now, although I gave my review the date that I finally decided to give up on this compost.] Update 3rd April 2025: I contacted Gardening Which? about this compost as I was surprised to see that it wasn't listed anywhere in their 2025 compost report. They replied to say that they had tested it the previous year and found results very similar to mine - i.e. bone dry on top of the container, a soggy mess at the bottom. It should definitely be listed as a Don't Buy this year, as it was in 2024. I have used different peat-free composts recommended by Gardening Which? for years and have always had good results.

This is probably the worst compost we have ever used. It’s a shame as we prefer to use something peat free and organic and opted for Rocketgro because it is also fairly local to us. The seedling compost wasn’t too bad but the stage 2&3 with added John innes either killed everything or stuff just hasn’t grown and gone yellow. Luckily I repotted some things into a different compost but left some in the Rocketgro and the difference is incredible. Tomatoes that we planted into the stage 2&3 haven’t grown at all, they have remained a couple of inches tall and gone yellow. I also had problems with drainage and found the soil too heavy and despite mixing in some perlite the pots struggled to dry out and the roots wouldn’t develop. I’m not sure if the soil is too hot or has something toxic in it but I would have been better off using soil from my garden in the pots to grow our vegetables this season. I won’t be buying this again.

Awful multi purpose compost.
In March this year I purchased 15 bags of this compost and was so pleased.
Since then I have struggled with gnats and nothing growing healthy. I have tried everything that I can think of and written to the company but then looked at these reviews. What a shock and I am not alone.
What a waste of time and money and after reading some of the company replies I don't expect anything helpful.
I most certainly won't be purchasing again or recommending.

You are coming up with just empty excuses.My free gift came in a plastic bag and leaked all over and smelled like cow's poo. I thought it was a joke and somebody sent me a manure poo bomb, which exploded in a transport as it is was disgusting....."weird organic plant feed". I will be surprised if you are operational in 5 years time with this attitude. All of the boxes received delivered by the same driver different days were packed poorly , all of them were OPENED!!! and just damaged. Have you ever ordered products from yourselves online and tested delivery service? It is just awfully executed and you are deluded. This company offers great products but the whole shopping experience is a let down. From Rocketgro ignorant customer service to Parcel Force forever delivery. Whoever created this company, please try to order your own goods and have them delivered to you incognito ( so nobody knows it is for you ) you will exactly understand what I mean. Express 24 delivery service carries on for 7 days and still leaves you annoyed as they are delivering one item per box, the boxes are not together. So how environmental friendly is Rocketgro to let Parcel force make 2 journeys on different days to me with the same order I placed 7 days ago instead of 1 journey?! They brought it in a big diesel van. Organic company polluting the uk. Shocking. Rocketgro and Parcel force are excusing this service saying that is acceptable. I disagree. I DO NOT recommend online shopping to anyone from this company and their delivery experience by Parcel force.....it is just awful. Nothing works in the Uk like it should. I do not wish for this customer service. It is BAD. People just do not care and the customer is not important. I do not know what ethos is at the centre of this company. It is not a customer. I called you regarding my delivery no answer, I left the message on the answer phone , I was ignored. Shame on you. Yeo valley company recommended me to you. Well, sorry I love Yeo valley products but Rocketgro can not deliver good customer service. Never again. You have very low standards of the customer care. I would say no existent. English is my second language, so you can correct any mistakes...but hopefully you got the message. Have I made myself clear? How many foreign languages can you write?

I bought 8 of these from a local garden centre. They were fairly solid so rolled the bags a number of times and after cutting the openings there was still a lot of breaking up to do prior to planting. The tomato plants have been very slow to grow, but the plants in two bags have all wilted and died, eventhough they have been watered every evening and fed weekly. It looks like I'll receive a very late and very small crop of tomatoes this year and definitely wont waste my money on these again. I'm not even sure that I'll be adding the material to my compost when the season is over. Im also providing feedback to my local garden centre to ensure that they are aware of feedback and don't stock this product again.

Is this the worst compost on the market? I think so and reading the reviews, so do many others. I usually get Tomorite growbags and needed eight when I bought in May but the garden centre only had six and recommended your bags as a suitable alternative. Well, what a shock I had when my tomatoes started to grow away in the Tomorite bags but hardly grew at all in rocketgro. In fact they became pale green and struggled to make any serious height. They are still very poor even now. I am very annoyed that six of my tomato plants in these bags will produce very little this season - what a waste of time. Had I realised that they were digestate based I would have avoided them like the plague. Someone once gave me a bag of digestate-based 'compost' and it was beyond awful. I emailed the company two weeks ago but response came there none. I have looked at postings of the product on Instagram and the reviews are in the main, very negative and critical of the product. I offered to send pictures over too but they probably know that their stuff is absolute rubbish and all they can do is send out patronising responses. I have been growing tomatoes for over 50 years and have never seen such rubbish as this. They ought to be taken to Trading Standards for selling a product unfit for purpose. I urge everyone who has had a bad experienced of this dire product to get the message out there and warn other gardeners to avoid, avoid, avoid.

Just bought 2 bags of peat free compost, and it has done wonders to my garden! It arrived on time and was packaged very well. Would definitely reccomend to anyone looking for peat free compost or needs a new alternative.