john smith wrote:
Jo wrote:

meexie wrote:

If you have a pickup, or a helpful friend with one, you can buy a load
of compost for $16 from Wake County yard waste recycling facility, on
New Hope.


If you are going for organic organic material, that might not be the
best place. You would never have control over what other people have
used in their yards chemical wise. Some chemicals break down, others
do not.


I just picked up a load 2 weekends ago - it's $18, and it's a LOT of
compost. It may be 2.5 yards, but it's really dense and compressed - by
the time you shovel it out you've got closer to 3.5 yards by my rough
guess. The compost is excellent - completely rotted down and very rich,
but as Jo says you have no idea what's in there. I use it for
ornamentals, save my homemade "organic" compost for the veggies.

BTW, I rented a pickup truck for the day to go get it - could probably
have gotten two loads, but that's a whole lotta shovelling :-) For ~$60
total, you couldn't have that much compost delivered, so I think it's a
great deal.

They also sell "mulch", but it's full of trash. Plastic bags, soda
bottles, etc.



Great on the description. I wouldn't mind some for my tree planting this
year.
Thanks for the heads up on the mulch too!

Jo