Re: Soil Improvement -Reply
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Soil Improvement -Reply
- From: m* l*
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 08:33:49 -0700
At 12:02 AM 1/14/99 EST, you wrote:
>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
>
Good advice, but watch out for salts in mushroom compost. I've heard some
of it also contains some metallic elements that one should beware of, if
you're doing organic gardening. Margaret L
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