"Steve Young" bowtieATbrightdslDOTnet wrote in message
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"Marie Dodge" wrote

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

Isn't that what you're looking for? new ideas?

OK, I looked and they have a place closer to were I live. About 10 miles
from here. I pass there every other week. :-)

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?

No, our out of town company just left about 45 minutes ago. We weren't home
most of the day.

How about 'soil care'? close enough?
http://www.biconet.com/soil.html

I'm nowhere near Brentwood. That town is known as "millionaires row."
Median Income: $126,800.00. Average home $500,000. I'll check out the
other place.

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?

Together, the three gardens come to close to 1000 sq. ft. We're enlarging
two of them next summer, rock allowing.

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.

I'll see what the place closer to me gets.

Did you look up a few grain elevators/feed mills as I had suggested? Or
were you hoping I'd do that for you?

Yep! The closest one, Co-op, is about 30 miles from here. We have to go
there next week for the 5 lbs of Ammonium Nitrate the Soil Test showed was
needed. I have no idea how much organic amendments would be the equivalent
of 5 lbs of that stuff.

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.

How much Greensand do I need for gardens that come to 1000 sq. ft?


Aside from the house and gardens, it's all lawn and woods.

Lawn and woods, wow! what a great place to gather organic material.

We do! Loads of it but it's never enough. It vanishes into the clay soil
like nothing by fall. That's why we're now getting loads from the City mulch
site. All the free mulch you can cart away. They grind and shred fallen
trees and brush and other plant debris. We already got 2 loads. :-))

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.
http://www.drpower.com/TwoStepChapte...VFlashHowWorks

My husband has a leaf-vac of the "same brand" (pulled by a large mower) but
a different model. He picks up all the fallen leaves and has for years. He
had another one before this one, but it was too small. We dump them on the
gardens to rot down over the winter with kitchen waste, weeds etc. In
spring we start tilling the rotted leaves under. We do it twice and
something I do it a third time by hand with a spade shovel. Despite the
impression some have here we don't use insecticides unless there is a real
problem organics fail to handle... like the WF and SP invasion this year.


Steve Young