"Marie Dodge" wrote
"Steve Young" bowtieATbrightdslDOTnet wrote
"Marie Dodge" wrote
I'm in Central TN, not far from Nashville.
There's only one Nursery in our area and they more or less carry the
same stuff the big chains carry plus bone and blood meal.
I doubt that, though organic supplies are often more difficult to find.
It simply requires a little more searching.
Have you called these people? They seem to be in your neck of the woods:
Dicken's Supply, 814 Cherokee Ave., Nashville, TN 37207 (615) 227-1111
http://www.dickenssupply.com/SOIL%20...NG%20MIXES.htm
I never heard of them.
Isn't that what you're looking for? new ideas?
I'm about 30 miles from Nashville and don't shop there.
Put together your seasonal needs and make one trip? Perhaps they have a
truck that makes local deliveries? Maybe an employee lives down the street
from you? Get creative instead whining and saying it can't be done. Most
importantly, did you call them?
I'll call them in the morning and see what their prices are like. I would
need enough for say a 900 sq ft garden. I don't see greensand listed
there.
Adjust your glasses Marie, it's item #6 from the top of soil amendments.
What did they say when you called?
Here's another company I purchase from.
Biocontrol Network
5116 Williamsburg Rd, Brentwood, Tennessee 37027
http://www.biconet.com/index.html
Give Eric a jingle, he'll treat you dandy.
(800) 441-BUGS (2847)
That's quite a distance from here. I don't see soil amendments at the
site.
How about 'soil care'? close enough?
http://www.biconet.com/soil.html
We can't afford these organic meals anymore as they're $5 to $6 for
small bags and we have several gardens.
You need to find a feed mill that handles grain and livestock feed. A
50lb sack of cotton seed meal $13.75. About the same price for alfalfa
meal and close to the same for a 50lb sack of Fertrell green sand.
Though I'm still looking for an inexpensive local source for 50lb
sacks of feather meal and blood meal.
A 50 lbs sack of any of these products wouldn't go anywhere in my gardens.
I'd need at least 8 to10 50 lb sacks to make a difference @ $13.75 each.
Were you fibbing when you said 900 sq ft above? Methinks you are using
these products incorrectly. They are side dressings and mixed only in the
root zone when planting, or scratched into the ground around the plant
during the growing season. They are not used like spreading fertilizer on
the lawn.
Why give weeds a boost? Eventually they will improve all your garden soil.
Did you look up a few grain elevators/feed mills as I had suggested? Or were
you hoping I'd do that for you?
How large is your garden BTW?
Just a tad under 3,000 square and I use less than $100 of sack products per
season. I don't know why you insist on doing things the expensive way.
Aside from the house and gardens, it's all lawn and woods.
Lawn and woods, wow! what a great place to gather organic material. Do you
have leaves that fall? I pull this behind my yard tractor and easily gather
enough material to turn out 12 yards of compost annually.
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Steve Young