BED PREPARATION - Scrape away existing grass and weeds; add compost, lava sand, organic fertilizer, expanded shale, cornmeal and dry molasses and till into the native soil.

Excavation of natural soil and additional ingredients such as concrete sand, peat moss, foreign soil and pine bark should not be used. More compost is needed for shrubs and flowers than for groundcover. Add greensand to black and white soils and high-calcium lime to acid soils. Decomposed granite, rock phosphate and zeolite are effective for most all soils.


Updated 8/09