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I have a small plot for my garden. Perhaps about 12' x 12'. I would really
like to enrich the soil. Something that would hold moisture and give good stability to my plants. What would be a good combination of soils to enrich. I have just regular top soil in it now. |
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"m. anne" wrote in message
... I have a small plot for my garden. Perhaps about 12' x 12'. I would really like to enrich the soil. Something that would hold moisture and give good stability to my plants. What would be a good combination of soils to enrich. I have just regular top soil in it now. Any response inappropriate except to advertise unsolicited information as you did not expound on what your regular soil consists of.... -- Dave If it looks like fish, smells like fish, its not a cantaloupe. |
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"m. anne" wrote in message ... I have a small plot for my garden. Perhaps about 12' x 12'. I would really like to enrich the soil. Something that would hold moisture and give good stability to my plants. What would be a good combination of soils to enrich. I have just regular top soil in it now. For free, you can never go wrong with piling up leaves and keeping them damp. Stop by a Starbucks and ask for coffee grounds. They'll likely give you a garbage bag full. Keep piling it on as you get it. A few weeks before you plant in the Spring, you can get some 50 lb. bags of alfalfa meal and/or dried molasses for cheap and work that in. Buck Moore Feed & Supply, 5237 N Lamar is where I've bought in the past. If money's not a problem, stop by The Natural Gardener and buy what they recommend. http://www.naturalgardeneraustin.com/ |
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"cat daddy" wrote in message ... "m. anne" wrote in message ... I have a small plot for my garden. Perhaps about 12' x 12'. I would really like to enrich the soil. Something that would hold moisture and give good stability to my plants. What would be a good combination of soils to enrich. I have just regular top soil in it now. For free, you can never go wrong with piling up leaves and keeping them damp. Stop by a Starbucks and ask for coffee grounds. They'll likely give you a garbage bag full. Keep piling it on as you get it. A few weeks before you plant in the Spring, you can get some 50 lb. bags of alfalfa meal and/or dried molasses for cheap and work that in. Buck Moore Feed & Supply, 5237 N Lamar is where I've bought in the past. If money's not a problem, stop by The Natural Gardener and buy what they recommend. http://www.naturalgardeneraustin.com/ Thank you. I heard that alfalfa hay had alot of nutrients in it. I didn't know they made alfalfa meal. I don't live around Austin. Hopefully here in our county someone should carry this stuff. I already have a bunch of leaves, (thanks to Ike) going in a compost area. Thanks for the info. |
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"m. anne" wrote in message ... "cat daddy" wrote in message ... "m. anne" wrote in message ... I have a small plot for my garden. Perhaps about 12' x 12'. I would really like to enrich the soil. Something that would hold moisture and give good stability to my plants. What would be a good combination of soils to enrich. I have just regular top soil in it now. For free, you can never go wrong with piling up leaves and keeping them damp. Stop by a Starbucks and ask for coffee grounds. They'll likely give you a garbage bag full. Keep piling it on as you get it. A few weeks before you plant in the Spring, you can get some 50 lb. bags of alfalfa meal and/or dried molasses for cheap and work that in. Buck Moore Feed & Supply, 5237 N Lamar is where I've bought in the past. If money's not a problem, stop by The Natural Gardener and buy what they recommend. http://www.naturalgardeneraustin.com/ Thank you. I heard that alfalfa hay had alot of nutrients in it. I didn't know they made alfalfa meal. I don't live around Austin. Hopefully here in our county someone should carry this stuff. I already have a bunch of leaves, (thanks to Ike) going in a compost area. Thanks for the info. One of the best uses for alfalfa meal is as the green component in compost, when you have a lot of leaves and no grass. I take about a gallon of meal and put it in a 5 gallon bucket of water. Let it soak and then pour it in the middle of the pile and cover. It really heats up the compost pile. |
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