Hundreds of Victorian home gardeners angry and out of pocket after using toxic compost from major recycler Suez

Some time in October last year, a batch of commercial compost left a Suez recycling facility in Melbourne, bound for garden centres in central Victoria and Melbourne.

Within days, it had been combined into soil mixes, and sold to backyard gardeners planting their summer veggie crops.

Within weeks, many of those crops were dying.

“Nothing survived,” said Kelly West, who lives in the northern Melbourne suburb of Reservoir.

In her front yard are two barren tubs that were…