I bought a few bags of Garden-ville potting soil and it darn near killed my
plants. It was too hot, I think - and it retained too much water, so they were
wet all the time - even in Austin! I left the second bag in the garage, where
my dog tore it up (my faux pas!) - and she had cruddy eyes for a week!
I have no idea who the creator is, and have no private interest in any nursery
here - just a consumer.
--
L.A. Rizzo
"Gig 'Em Aggies!" Mays MBA
Austin, TX
"animaux" wrote in message
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On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:42:09 -0600, J Kolenovsky opined:
Yes, I've heard of Ladybug and Sustane/you mention them frequently.
Houston has "Microlife".
Regarding the Garden-Ville product:
1. What is it about the creator?
I don't like his ethics or the ethics of a few he's involved with. I've said
more than I should.
2. What were the results of using the product?
J
Well, I still had chlorosis and the results were not as good as when I used
Sustane or LadyBug Brand. As I've said, I prefer to use products which do not
contain human waste. They are cheap, but unreliable. Biosolids can contain
harmful levels of heavy metals and it stinks. Anything I have to wear a mask
to
use is not used. I don't even use D.E. any more, as a dust for that reason.
I could probably get specific with results, but I will say for arguments sake
that, the results I see with the preferred products far outweighs any result
I'd
seen using Gardenville fertilizer products.
Further, while Milorganite is a sludge product which I've used in the past for
my turf areas, I stopped using IT as well. It was a good, bacterial based,
sludge product, but to have it shipped from Wisconsin when I have perfectly
good
products made locally seems to be a waste.
I do believe LadyBug Brand can cover an area of 7,000 sq.ft. I could be wrong
about that, but for turf, the 8-2-4 outperformed every other product out
there.
The following website can provide the results of their studies, which were
conducted on turf using several forms of fertilizer.
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/growgreen/lawncare.htm
Victoria