07-30-2014, 03:02 PM
(07-30-2014, 01:20 PM)kadylady Wrote:(07-30-2014, 01:11 PM)tvguy Wrote:(07-30-2014, 12:50 PM)kadylady Wrote:Thanks, I just checked what you called a "scoop" is a yard. it's $28 a yard for the good stuff ....(07-30-2014, 12:23 PM)tvguy Wrote:(07-30-2014, 12:07 PM)kadylady Wrote: Nothing better than a homegrown tomato! Well.....maybe, but you know what I mean. We have crappy soil but do have a good compost pile. I just can't resist throwing some extra nutrition their way.
BTW....I love your weed garden.
I have crappy soil too. I'm in the Agate desert and the top soil is very shallow. So yes I have to throw some extra nutrition their way also.
Last year I bought a couple truck loads of potting soil from the old Modoc orchards. They were composting peaches from Sobroso.
But I've had just as good or even better luck just buying composed horse manure.
Except for one time when I bought some that was mixed with saw dust. That stuff sucked.
The transfer station processes all the yard trimmings and piles it up. Then they sell the compost for about $10 a scoop, maybe $15 if it's not on special. It's pretty good stuff but of course it may have weeds. But, when you want to work a large area, it's worth it. We keep straw in our chicken coop. It really absorbs the chicken shit. So, we add that to our home made compost pile. I also heard that pine needles make good mulch for tomatoes. Lots of acid. I just remembered that. We didn't do it this year. Oooops.
Rogue Fine Compost- 1/2 yard minimum $28 per yard
But that's a great price IMO.
It is a good price. Josephine County Transfer Station on Merlin/Galice Rd, is where we get it. I think we usually can get two yards in our utility trailer. It's a lot of compost. EDIT......never mind. They improved it and now it's $30 a yard. LOL I just called them.
Oops, I was talking about Rogue disposal in Jackson county.
I know this composed soil is good stuff but I swear the composted horse manure and straw was the best stuff I ever had.
I could spread it on the ground around my plants, water it in and watch the plant grow instantly .. well almost.
I had 1 1/2 pound Walla Wallas and ten foot or taller Jeruslem artichokes.
Here are some sunflowers that I grew...