Re: Soil Improvement -Reply
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Soil Improvement -Reply
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:02:14 EST
In a message dated 1/13/99 7:07:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, SS@Schwabe.com
writes:
<< Every year I order a unit or more (7 cu. yards in a
unit) of yard debris compost or mushroom compost
delivered to my home. >>
Mushroom comopost is magic! Whenever I make a new bed I pile 6-8" of mushroom
compost on top and then till in. Plants think they are in heaven and grow
rampantly. But leave those beds alone for 4-5 years and many of the benefits
are gone. Experts at our Civic Garden Center (Cincinnati) promote adding a
top dressing to beds every year of some organic matter, and I don't think you
can beat mushroom compost. I also keep a pile of this available year-round to
amend holes when I am planting some thing new.
And unless you have some deficiency you are trying to correct, or have
something that is an especially heavy feeder, I don't think you need to add
any fertilizer at that time. And be careful with bonemeal--you may attract
digging animals and then it won't matter if you have carefully avoided
covering the crowns of your plants as the animals may damage a lot of plants
trying to get at the bonemeal.
Bill Lee
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