Brunnings Tomato and Vegetable Growing Mix

Good value product – Happy with product on my latest grow , has No NPK rating wich would have liked , but used seasol through grow , quite happy good value Show details

Awesome product – Fantastic mix for vegetables and fruit trees but only on top and around . If plants grow in this to root levels the roots will burn. Also could have worm sporns in this mix as my fruit trees and veg garden are swarming with worms. Show details

This mix is crap – I read a lot of the bad reviews, the cause of the problem is the PH of the mix is 10 i just did a test . The PH should be 7.This product should be taken off the shelf.  Show details

Pith necrosis – Planted a beefsteak tomato, fertilised with additional NPK and everything was going great. The tomatoes reached mature green, one month later it started to die. It contracted pith necrosis from the potting soil. I don't think you should be selling a product specially designed for tomatoes if it contains diseases. Something needs to be done about this. Show details

This is by far the worst mix you can buy for anything – Opened up a bag of the brunnings tomato and vegetable mix and i kid you not, it included a plastic recycling plant, a forest, and a quarry all in one bag, by far the most generous company to provide absolute useless material for your gardens. Would happily rate it 0/10 if I was given the chance. Absolute crap and would 100% never recommend any of their products. Show details

OMG I WANT TO SCREAM – Just realised Bunnings moderate all their reviews so that's why it has such a good rating on their website. This mix is killing all my seedlings which I lovingly cultivated, I am SO ANNOYED. this product should not be sold. Show details

Good for the price – I found if you add some extra manure and use a good fertilizer this product works great. Its quite cheap so if you use a base it works well. I have found all cheap mixes need to be fertilized to get a result. Show details

Hydrophobic, full of sticks, plaster and fungus gnats – Bought a bag to repot some snow peas and start a new pot of veggies. Potting mix is full of large bark, sticks and in my case of plaster and stripped paint flakes. Once potted, the top dries extremely fast and repels water unless you really dig in the water. The kick in the guts was 2 weeks after potting up I had an enormous explosion of fungus… Read more

gnats only in the pots that had this soil. Need to now invest more money to treat all my plants because of this. Do not skimp on soil and invest in something like Yates with dynamic lifter or flower power professional mix

Will be returning for a refund! Cheap and Nasty! – This product is terrible. It was more sticks than soil and small matter and when working it over to loosen there were pieces of rubber and plastic mixed through. Why would I want that in my garden!!!! Brunnings, shame on you and Bunnings, I would recommend not stocking, find a better supplier. Show details

Very poor. PLANTS WILL DIE/NOT THRIVE!!!! – As a beginner gardener the price of this soil (which claims its for vegetables and tomatoes) was very attractive. Boy was I ripped off or what as the amount of money spent on bags of this and the dead and dying plants or plants that did not thrive could easily have been used towards a better quality soil/potting mix! I thought it was my fault that… Read more

my garden was not thriving even though I was doing everything to care for it. I asked a family member why their garden was thriving so well and turns out they use a premium potting mix! It goes to show you get what you pay for! $3.99 a bag at Bunnings? NOT A BARGAIN! Please take this off the shelves Bunnings as other beginners like myself will find the price attractive in starting a first time garden, only to have plants fail. Such a waste of money. I will not give up, I will start again and buy (but not from Bunnings!) a better quality potting mix now that I know better!

Don't use this product it should be removed from store shelves! – I have used this for for root vegetables and Tomatoes and even daring to use flower, never in my entire career as a man that works in the landscaping or horticultural industry seen a worse soil as this to be honest I would not even call it soil, some how is worse than solid topsoil. this was alright for a few weeks the flowers had come up as… Read more

normal but then had died recently after that and the root vegetables had never come up I would not recommend this to even an experience nor a new beginner gardener. please if you are in need of cheap soil please do not get this i would rather spend the money to get a drink of water. (You have been warned).

Very Disappointed – Planted celery and lettuce plants in a polystyrene box filled with this product. After 6 weeks, very little growth above the ground. When I pulled them out and emptied the container, it was full of roots from the plants. Seems excellent for root growth but no good for above ground progress. Just hope my tomatoes and cucumbers don't suffer the same demise. Show details

Plant killing potting mix – Every plant in this mix has died or died back. Planted herbs and veg from same punnets in another mix and they have thrived. No aeration, compacts, waste of money. Show details

Very good product – I have used this product for 2 seasons now and have had fantastic results. Tomatoes, spring onions, cucumbers and lots of different flowers. Seriously if you can't get good results with this product then you must be doing something wrong. The only negative is some small pieces of timber are still to be found. I love it and the price, woohoo you have got to be happy. Show details

This stuff is rocket fuel! – This product is doing wonders for my veggies! I’ve found this mix works really well when combined with mushroom compost and must be wet down well and then left for a week or so! Then turn the soil and water again! It’s a well draining mix and just needs to moist prior to planting. Thanks brunnings I’ve found a magic formula Brunnings tomato and veg mix+mushroom compost  Show details

Seedlings Wilted After First Day – My tomato seedlings were thriving until I planted them in this mix. I watered them in well. By the next day they began to wilt and it was not even a sunny day it was mostly overcast. I'm not sure whether to take them out or wait and see if they recover.  Show details

Worse than disappointing – Two tomato seedlings, basil and parsley were planted in this mix in separate suitable sized pots. All plants thrived for about a fortnight but then began to decline. When I tried to pinch out the top leaves of the basil to rencourage branching, the plant came out showing a root ball that was no bigger than the ball on the initial seedling. Both… Read more

tomato plants and the basil eventually wilted and died. The parsley did not really thrive and was discarded.

Worst "potting mix" ever – I purchased this mix in the hope of boosting the health of my annual tomato crop. However after a few weeks the potting mix became rock hard and hydrophobic. Water would not penetrate even with commercial soil wetters. You might as well try to grow plants in a brick wall. Every single plant I grew in this mix either died or became severely stunted. Avoid this product if you care about plants.  Show details

Worst product ever – I bought this product from our local Bunnings store with a hope that i will have better crop. Instead it harmed the seeds and my vegetables. Wherever i used the product, plants stopped growing and were slowly gone..... All hard work gone too...... I expected better but hopefully some body will look into it ... Never try this product..  Show details

Should be marketed as a herbicide IMO – Tomato plants germinated but never grew. Stunted to a couple of cms in height. No chance they would ever bear fruit. Very disappointing. I have grown tomatoes from seed before. Those plants grew quickly and matured as expected. This time nothing. You'd think you could buy a product marketed as a tomato mix with confidence. Apparently not so.  Show details