RE: RE: Fertilizer - growth inhibitors

Donald,
	We use a compost called Back to Nature that is made her locally from cotton
by products and love what it does for our soil!  We haul it in by the truck
load and if I had a place to store it we would have it delivered by the 18
wheeler load <G>.

Dana

Dana Brown
AIS Region 17 Judges Training Chairperson
Director TBIS, ASI
AIS, ASI, MIS, RIS, SPIS, TBIS
Malevil Gardens
www.malevil-iris.com
Lubbock, TX
Zone 7 USDA, Zone 10 Sunset
DanaBrown@peoplepc.com



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From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On Behalf Of Donald
Eaves
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 11:14 AM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: [iris] RE: Fertilizer - growth inhibitors

I use gypsum generously.  But my clay is starved for organic material and in
a season can consume copious amounts of organic matter.  Added in spring, by
fall there is almost no traces left of the organic stuff added, no matter
how generously it was added.  It does improve gradually over a period of
time.  The more often a bed is reworked, the better the improvement.  The
longest lasting organic material for me have proved to be the shredded oak
leaves that are obtained from the yard.  Following the oak leaves is a
cottonbur compost that is a by-product of the cotton harvest in the Texas
panhandle.  It comes in bags and is very coarse which may be the reason it
sticks around in the clay longer.

Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA

> Gypsum is the standard amendment for clay.

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