Re: How do you fill your beds?

**"* R* B* <g*@enter.net>**

Here at work and therefore at home with my own raised beds we use a
composted mushroom byproduct.  It's not your traditional mushroom "soil."
It's mixed with sand, screened topsoil and then turned repeatedly.  Great
stuff.  I consider us very lucky to be living so close to one of the top
mushroom-growing centers in the country. 

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Subject: [GWL] How do you fill your beds?

Looking for a bit of input from other parts of the country.

What do gardeners in your part of the country use to fill raised beds?

Here in So Cal, we use composted organic materials mixed with sand or
decomposed granite.  Our soils are totally lacking in organic material to
start with, so we have to work hard at it.

What is typical in your area?

Nan
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