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14-09-2003, 11:25 PM
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Soil recommendations?
I have a couple of 4x4 frames of landscape timbers and wanted to get some
soil to fill them to start a garden. I figured a truckload of soil would be pcheaper than filling them with bags of dillo dirt from home depot. Can anyone recommend a place in Central Austin where I can get a truckload of soil? How much can I expect to pay for it? Any leftover will be spread on my lawn. |
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15-09-2003, 12:32 AM
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Soil recommendations?
busry wrote:
I have a couple of 4x4 frames of landscape timbers and wanted to get some soil to fill them to start a garden. I figured a truckload of soil would be pcheaper than filling them with bags of dillo dirt from home depot. Can anyone recommend a place in Central Austin where I can get a truckload of soil? How much can I expect to pay for it? Any leftover will be spread on my lawn. I always buy from GeoGrowers. Good people, quality equal or better to Natural Gardener, minus the flakiness, $~35/yard + $40-55/deliver, depending on truck size. |
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15-09-2003, 02:02 PM
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Soil recommendations?
The Natural gardener is making state of the art compost, currently. They
inoculated it with microbes from aerobic tea and have some of the most beautiful compost I'd seen. You will need to mix it with the existing soil and loosen what you have. Laying soil or compost on top of a hard soil will be unsuccessful. On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 22:23:32 GMT, "busry" opined: I have a couple of 4x4 frames of landscape timbers and wanted to get some soil to fill them to start a garden. I figured a truckload of soil would be pcheaper than filling them with bags of dillo dirt from home depot. Can anyone recommend a place in Central Austin where I can get a truckload of soil? How much can I expect to pay for it? Any leftover will be spread on my lawn. |
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18-09-2003, 06:22 AM
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Soil recommendations?
What's the difference between soil and dirt?
"busry" wrote in message ... I have a couple of 4x4 frames of landscape timbers and wanted to get some soil to fill them to start a garden. I figured a truckload of soil would be pcheaper than filling them with bags of dillo dirt from home depot. Can anyone recommend a place in Central Austin where I can get a truckload of soil? How much can I expect to pay for it? Any leftover will be spread on my lawn. |
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18-09-2003, 01:42 PM
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Soil recommendations?
They are both the same, except soil costs mo-)
"Jill Johnson" wrote in message ... What's the difference between soil and dirt? "busry" wrote in message ... I have a couple of 4x4 frames of landscape timbers and wanted to get some soil to fill them to start a garden. I figured a truckload of soil would be pcheaper than filling them with bags of dillo dirt from home depot. Can anyone recommend a place in Central Austin where I can get a truckload of soil? How much can I expect to pay for it? Any leftover will be spread on my lawn. |
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18-09-2003, 09:24 PM
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No, they are not the same. Dirt is the stuff that shows up on your car, windows,
door knobs and floors. Soil is a living, active, rich biological system which is full of myriad life forms. Everything from micro organisms to macro organisms live in soil. Soil is life. Dirt is not. Some soils need to be amended in order to make it more hospitable to grow plants in. Many of the Texas soils have high alkalinity, some in East Texas are acidic, then there are the swaths of acidic soils which run from far north Dallas, down through the Park Cities, downward to just south of Waco. All soil on the earth has a way of renewal. Forests have renewal in their leaf litter, and other fungi in the soil which form mats under ground and symbiotically live with trees and help them use water and nutrients. So, I can go further, but this is only a millionth of the differences between dirt and soil, from a scientific standpoint. Victoria On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 05:41:25 -0500, opined: They are both the same, except soil costs mo-) "Jill Johnson" wrote in message ... What's the difference between soil and dirt? "busry" wrote in message ... I have a couple of 4x4 frames of landscape timbers and wanted to get some soil to fill them to start a garden. I figured a truckload of soil would be pcheaper than filling them with bags of dillo dirt from home depot. Can anyone recommend a place in Central Austin where I can get a truckload of soil? How much can I expect to pay for it? Any leftover will be spread on my lawn. |
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18-09-2003, 09:24 PM
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Soil recommendations?
If you are a native Texan and grew up in the
country, there is just dirt. However, as you noted, there is good dirt & bad dirt:-) Gene "animaux" wrote in message ... No, they are not the same. Dirt is the stuff that shows up on your car, windows, door knobs and floors. Soil is a living, active, rich biological system which is full of myriad life forms. Everything from micro organisms to macro organisms live in soil. Soil is life. Dirt is not. Some soils need to be amended in order to make it more hospitable to grow plants in. Many of the Texas soils have high alkalinity, some in East Texas are acidic, then there are the swaths of acidic soils which run from far north Dallas, down through the Park Cities, downward to just south of Waco. All soil on the earth has a way of renewal. Forests have renewal in their leaf litter, and other fungi in the soil which form mats under ground and symbiotically live with trees and help them use water and nutrients. So, I can go further, but this is only a millionth of the differences between dirt and soil, from a scientific standpoint. Victoria On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 05:41:25 -0500, opined: They are both the same, except soil costs mo-) "Jill Johnson" wrote in message ... What's the difference between soil and dirt? "busry" wrote in message ... I have a couple of 4x4 frames of landscape timbers and wanted to get some soil to fill them to start a garden. I figured a truckload of soil would be pcheaper than filling them with bags of dillo dirt from home depot. Can anyone recommend a place in Central Austin where I can get a truckload of soil? How much can I expect to pay for it? Any leftover will be spread on my lawn. |
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18-09-2003, 09:28 PM
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Soil recommendations?
No, they are not the same. Dirt is the stuff that shows up on your car, windows,
door knobs and floors. Soil is a living, active, rich biological system which is full of myriad life forms. Everything from micro organisms to macro organisms live in soil. Soil is life. Dirt is not. Some soils need to be amended in order to make it more hospitable to grow plants in. Many of the Texas soils have high alkalinity, some in East Texas are acidic, then there are the swaths of acidic soils which run from far north Dallas, down through the Park Cities, downward to just south of Waco. All soil on the earth has a way of renewal. Forests have renewal in their leaf litter, and other fungi in the soil which form mats under ground and symbiotically live with trees and help them use water and nutrients. So, I can go further, but this is only a millionth of the differences between dirt and soil, from a scientific standpoint. Victoria On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 05:41:25 -0500, opined: They are both the same, except soil costs mo-) "Jill Johnson" wrote in message ... What's the difference between soil and dirt? "busry" wrote in message ... I have a couple of 4x4 frames of landscape timbers and wanted to get some soil to fill them to start a garden. I figured a truckload of soil would be pcheaper than filling them with bags of dillo dirt from home depot. Can anyone recommend a place in Central Austin where I can get a truckload of soil? How much can I expect to pay for it? Any leftover will be spread on my lawn. |
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18-09-2003, 09:28 PM
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Soil recommendations?
If you are a native Texan and grew up in the
country, there is just dirt. However, as you noted, there is good dirt & bad dirt:-) Gene "animaux" wrote in message ... No, they are not the same. Dirt is the stuff that shows up on your car, windows, door knobs and floors. Soil is a living, active, rich biological system which is full of myriad life forms. Everything from micro organisms to macro organisms live in soil. Soil is life. Dirt is not. Some soils need to be amended in order to make it more hospitable to grow plants in. Many of the Texas soils have high alkalinity, some in East Texas are acidic, then there are the swaths of acidic soils which run from far north Dallas, down through the Park Cities, downward to just south of Waco. All soil on the earth has a way of renewal. Forests have renewal in their leaf litter, and other fungi in the soil which form mats under ground and symbiotically live with trees and help them use water and nutrients. So, I can go further, but this is only a millionth of the differences between dirt and soil, from a scientific standpoint. Victoria On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 05:41:25 -0500, opined: They are both the same, except soil costs mo-) "Jill Johnson" wrote in message ... What's the difference between soil and dirt? "busry" wrote in message ... I have a couple of 4x4 frames of landscape timbers and wanted to get some soil to fill them to start a garden. I figured a truckload of soil would be pcheaper than filling them with bags of dillo dirt from home depot. Can anyone recommend a place in Central Austin where I can get a truckload of soil? How much can I expect to pay for it? Any leftover will be spread on my lawn. |
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18-09-2003, 10:15 PM
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Soil recommendations?
"Jill Johnson" wrote in message ...
Howdy folks, In regards to this question: What's the difference between soil and dirt? One of the first lessons I do with the Kindergardener gardeners is on the difference between soil and dirt. Soil is in the garden, dirt is what it becomes when you track it back into the classroom all over the classroom carpet. take care, Steve Coyle www.austingardencenter.com |
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18-09-2003, 10:22 PM
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Soil recommendations?
"Jill Johnson" wrote in message ...
Howdy folks, In regards to this question: What's the difference between soil and dirt? One of the first lessons I do with the Kindergardener gardeners is on the difference between soil and dirt. Soil is in the garden, dirt is what it becomes when you track it back into the classroom all over the classroom carpet. take care, Steve Coyle www.austingardencenter.com |
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18-09-2003, 11:37 PM
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18-09-2003, 11:47 PM
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18-09-2003, 11:58 PM
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19-09-2003, 05:42 AM
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Is mud wet dirt or wet soil?
"animaux" wrote in message ... I've been gardening here for ten years. I didn't have to be born here to know that soils differentiate. No soil is dirt. It's all soil, good or bad. Dirt is the thing you squirt Fantastic on to clean it off door knob surrounds. On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:12:38 -0500, opined: If you are a native Texan and grew up in the country, there is just dirt. However, as you noted, there is good dirt & bad dirt:-) Gene "animaux" wrote in message .. . No, they are not the same. Dirt is the stuff that shows up on your car, windows, door knobs and floors. Soil is a living, active, rich biological system which is full of myriad life forms. Everything from micro organisms to macro organisms live in soil. Soil is life. Dirt is not. Some soils need to be amended in order to make it more hospitable to grow plants in. Many of the Texas soils have high alkalinity, some in East Texas are acidic, then there are the swaths of acidic soils which run from far north Dallas, down through the Park Cities, downward to just south of Waco. All soil on the earth has a way of renewal. Forests have renewal in their leaf litter, and other fungi in the soil which form mats under ground and symbiotically live with trees and help them use water and nutrients. So, I can go further, but this is only a millionth of the differences between dirt and soil, from a scientific standpoint. Victoria On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 05:41:25 -0500, opined: They are both the same, except soil costs mo-) "Jill Johnson" wrote in message ... What's the difference between soil and dirt? "busry" wrote in message ... I have a couple of 4x4 frames of landscape timbers and wanted to get some soil to fill them to start a garden. I figured a truckload of soil would be pcheaper than filling them with bags of dillo dirt from home depot. Can anyone recommend a place in Central Austin where I can get a truckload of soil? How much can I expect to pay for it? Any leftover will be spread on my lawn. |
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