Hone your spring compost offer with best-selling compost from Durston Garden Products

The season has got off to a good start, with some welcome sunshine encouraging gardeners to get out and start planting, but will your compost offer hit the right mark this year? Durston Garden Products’ Dan Durston offers a helping hand to stimulate sales in the category, with a round-up of the brand’s top-selling lines and why stockists love them.

Multi-purpose to drive volume sales

Durston’s range of Multi-purpose Composts is a staple line for its retail customers, many of which swear by the unique ‘GRO BOOST’ additive – exclusive to Durston’s – for providing plants with a long-lasting nutrient boost and helping to ensure fantastic growing performance. Dan said: “Our collection includes Multi-Purpose Compost, Multi-Purpose Compost with John Innes, and Multi-Purpose Compost Peat Free, allowing retailers to offer a premium product that provides excellent nutrient content and delivers consistently impressive results. Garden centres tell us that the growing success achieved with Durstons’ products keeps their customers coming back for more.”

Value for money

Durston’s Manor Farm Multi-Purpose Compost is a firm favourite with garden retailers, who hail the range as an excellent value multi-purpose compost that promotes healthy growth for all plants and vegetables. “Competitively priced and packed full of all the essential nutrients needed to help cuttings, seeds, young plants, flowers, and vegetables become established and grow to full maturity. Manor Farm is the ideal solution for those new gardeners or those wanting to minimise spend without compromising on quality.”

Boosting the offering is Manor Farm Peat-Free Multi-Purpose Compost, which allows stockists to offer a peat-free compost at a great-value price point, making greener products more accessible to a wider cross section of consumers.

Helping gardeners make better choices

With increasing pressure from consumers for more sustainable and environmentally responsible products, retailers have welcomed the chance to refine their compost offer and provide customers with better alternatives. As many gardeners now actively avoid growing media that contains the non-renewable natural resource, Durston’s peat-free compost and a reduction in the use of peat across our entire range has given sellers the chance to help end users make better choices. Our GRO BOOST additive – a specially-formulated blend of organic materials from renewable sources – helps maintain outstanding growing performance, reducing users’ reliance on peat.

“The use of recycled material in our packaging has also been widely praised by our retailers, plus the fact that all packaging is 100% recyclable after use. But it’s about more than products and packaging, which is why our environmental policy includes a comprehensive after-use restoration programme that creates areas of natural regeneration and habitat for wildlife. Eco-friendly initiatives, less waste, greener ingredients, and products that get the nation growing – all things that Durston’s stockists love being able to shout about and have helped them reduce their own carbon footprint.

Growing media is an overwhelming category for some gardeners. Our stockists love that, with our products, they can present gardeners with a quality comprehensive compost offer that cuts through the confusion, is suitable for all gardening uses, and can satisfy all customers, whatever their expectations. As the new season starts to build momentum, we will keep garden retailers’ tills ringing and their compost sales soaring. Durstons prides itself on outstanding service, as well as top-quality products, so it’s not too late to get your orders and give your compost offer the boost it needs for what we all hope will be a fantastic gardening season ahead.”

Durstons Sales Director, Dan Durston