Assuming the list is back up...and that I have a set of Japanese soil
screens...

I hate to ask this, but...I lost my main client and I just got my wife
working so bonsai soil is low on the money list...how bad REALLY is a nice
big bag of oil dry from Northern Tools? Silted through some window screening
of course...

On top of that, what is the cheapest bark mulch or organic component?

Dad got me half a dozen big starter pots at Dallas Bonsai at Thanksgiving
but my oldest boy has dumped most of my sifted builder's sand out behind the
garage and, well, in Houston, some of those buds are a-swelling'

John