On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:24:43 GMT, salad wrote:

Hi: I have an area that used to be a childrens playground area in my
back yard. I am going to convert it to a garden. There is a brick
retaining wall surrounding the new garden area.

I expect I'll need between 8 and 10 cubic yards of dirt/compost for the
garden. At our local landfill they sell some really excellent compost,
reminds me of the land I see when I go thru Iowa. But compost really
isn't dirt/top soil.

Could I use all compost for my garden? If not, what would be a good
ratio for compost to dirt?


IMHO,

Use it in your yard. An eating garden, you should have total control
over what was used in the compost and you can't do it with landfill
compost. It's a quality control issue.

later,

tom @ www.NoCostAds.com