In article , "Starlord"
wrote:

You have totaly missed one of the best there is! and it's cheap and adds
to the
soil itself ... What is it?
Steer Manure!!!

I use fully composted steer manure as a sterile top-coating that
suppresses weeds yet looks like rich dark topsoil. Not good used this way
for a seedling bed of course.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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