Re: compost
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] compost
- From: M* L*
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 08:41:47 -0700
At 09:47 AM 11/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Bobbie:
>Saw your note about using 8-12 inches of compost in all your landscaping
>design jobs. Do you add any other ammendments, such as manure or a bit of
>clay soil to your planting holes? Do you advise your customers to do
>anything special to the beds every year?
>Some years ago I read in one of Ann Lovejoy's books that she spreads a
>thick layer of compost. even under trees, doesn't till it in and plants
>directly in it. In my late, still lamented KS garden I did just that and
>it worked well. The country hort agent, speaking ex cathedra, said it
>made sense. I knew that because it worked.
>So then we moved to Cleveland, where I garden on 18 inches of clay over
>shale. Both the designer who planned my garden and the hort agent said to
>spread topsoil mixed with some(?) compost as pure compost is too
>organic. Well, I used the compost method anyway, since we are blessed
>with lovely abundant cheap municipal compost. My garden grows with abandon.
>How your deep compost beds develop over the long term?
>Laura
>Cleveland, 6a, Indian Summer
This is the first time I've ever read or heard that something could be "too
organic." Do you have any idea what was meant? Margaret L
