I have a new house that was built last year and this compost was used with quality soil when creating all my beds last year. Beds for foundation plantings, perennials, herbs and soon to be roses. The small kitchen garden (the only "garden" I planted last year) was heavily amended with the stuff --3 or 4 front end loader loads in two 5'x15' spaces. The plants were VERY happy.

Skip to today. I will be planting my first roses soon. I've been reading about different "recipes" of stuff to put in the holes, fertilizers to add, etc. I'm not sure as to the best way to incorporate other soil additives/fertilizers with the compost resources and if I even need to add anything. With compost how much is too much? How often is too often? Dig more in, use it as mulch, or just throw on a shovel full on?

How would you garden if you had an over abundance of quality compost?

One thing to allow for: all those organics are going to continue to break down. What I've seen in my oldest rose beds (15 years + or -) is that all the organics that we worked into my wretched clay did improve the clay and make for happier roses, but the organics do disintegrate with time and the surface of the soil goes back down, a lot. Not much movement in drier years, but the wetness of last year really dropped soil levels. This has led me to believe that organics are best here as additions, not as a basis for filling a partly raised bed.