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Ray Brown
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 6:10 am Post subject: Recommend store bought compost for spreading on the yard? |
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This will be my 2nd season on the new yard, and I'm still trying to build up the soil. Have not had the time/dedication to get a compost pile going...so anyway, what can I spread out?
I heard Howard mention Kow Pow for spreading in beds/ect...I'm assuming that'd be fine for the whole yard too?
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jrosto
Joined: 03 May 2003
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 6:47 am Post subject: |
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Dan; You might save some expense buying in bulk when spreading on your whole yard. I do not know a bulk provider in your area, but Soil Building Systems is not to far from you, and they have excellent dairy cow based compost.
Http://www.soilbuildingsystems.com
They also have a nifty little calculator on the site to help plan quantaties of compost and spreading rates. |
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Scott Fl
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:01 am Post subject: |
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| lean towards 60% sand! |
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Dchall_San_Antonio
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| Doctor Gobbler is a good turkey manure based, bagged compost. |
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CCC/rframp
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject: Compost on the yard |
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If your considering spreading compost on the entire lawn and you want to save a back, I recommend a company out of Prosper, TX. You can check them out a soilexpress.com. Blowmaster.com will aslo lead you to their site.
They have a hopper truck equiped with a blower and can blow the compost, mulch, etc where you want it. I had them blow 17 yards of compost on my back lawn last fall to a depth of 3/4". The process took about an 1 1/2 hours vs 100's of trips with the wheel barrow. It was economical also. Less than $30 yd delivered and put down. I went in behind that with a CGM application to ward off any weeds. I'm very pleased with the results. My neighbor and I will split a load for the front this summer.
Only caution, it gets dust everywhere!!!! Pool owners beware! |
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