Warning: "Clover Bark Chips" - a brand to be wary of!

 
This is a warning to gardeners about to purchase bark chips for the
garden.

Be wary of the Clover brand, packed and distributed by "Clover Peat
Products" of Northern Ireland.  Their "bark chips" come in large
dark-green plastic sacks.

http://www.cloverpeat.co.uk/CLOVER-BARK.html

The bags certainly USED TO contain high-quality, attractive,
dark-stained, brown, bark chips.

But bags bought a month ago contained more wet brown rubbish (ideal for
stuff to grow in, or at least very likely to break down quite soon into
soil) than they did attractive bark chips.

Given that the idea behind spreading bark chips around is to suppress
weeds, the stuff that has come out of recent bags is to be avoided.
It's more likely to encourage weed-GROWTH!

What's more, the few "bark chips" amidst all the dark-stained "rubbish"
are hardly attractive.  They look more like scrag-ends scooped up from
the floor of a some timber-merchants!

See two photos of the mess that's recently tumbled out of sacks of
"Clover Bark Chips" here:

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg82/EddyBentley/CloverBarkChipspic1.jpg

and here:

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg82/EddyBentley/CloverBarkChipspic2.jpg

There are plenty of other brands available.

 wrote:

Have you tried contacting them and sending them the pictures?

 Dave Hill wrote:

Yes, they and the local suppliers have been advised.

Eddy.