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| Hi,
Can anybody suggest me where to to buy good vegetable garden soil in Houston/Cypress area.My raised beds are ready to be filled with soil....my prevoius purchase from yard depot is not satisfactory.Soil was full of mulch and thats the expensive and the best they have. Any sugestions will be greatly appriciated. Thank you! |
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- Posted by gardengal48 PNW zone 8 (My Page) on Tue, Mar 1, 11 at 14:37
| Soil was full of mulch Not sure what that means.......lots of mulch ingredients are perfectly acceptable additions to a raised bed soil. Do the beds need to be completely filled or just the previous season's soils amended. If you just need to add to them, compost is great idea. If you don't have your own, are there any municipal composting operations around? And have you posted this on your regional forum? Because they address a more specific location, you will often get a lot more responses from those that live in your immediate area. |
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- Posted by indiangardener none (My Page) on Tue, Mar 1, 11 at 17:59
| Big shreads of wood...plants seems not growing that good in that type of soil. They are new beds..they need to be filled completely. I will post in the regional forum. Thank you for your suggestions..Gardengal48! |
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| People mistakenly think that 'mulch' means wood products. The best mulches are not wood. My favorite mulches are compost or seaweed or hay---all of which are fabulous additions to the garden soil. Anyway, other than that, I've got nothing to add to Gardengal's post. Find out if your town runs a composting program. |
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| I'm presuming your summers are hot? I ask because raised beds can actually be a real trial in hot, dry climates. I created raised beds in my sandy, dry, seaside area, but over time I've been reducing my gardens to ground-level, or even a bit below. The raised bed sides are useful for keeping windbreak cloth and mulch in place during the regular gales! This may be irrelevant for many reasons, but in my experience, raised beds have quite specific climatic applications, if accessability isn't the issue. |
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- Posted by jonhughes So.Oregon (jonehughes@hotmail.com) on Thu, Mar 3, 11 at 20:03
| The term "raised bed" has so many nuances, as to almost be meaningless/unknowable, I have seen "raised beds" be nothing more than "bordered beds" (2"x 12" boards surrounding a plot/soil being at ground level), I have a lot of different types of "raised beds", personally ,I like them because they "contain" all of the supplements and such that I provide for them. The biggest "plus" for me would be that on "harvest days", I don't have to be bent over for hours at a time. The FoodBank is only open Monday thru Thursday, so I harvest on Mondays and Thursdays. The two foot tall raised beds are my favorite, almost no bending ;-) As far as buying bulk compost, ask at a local nursery,or large landscape company, they will be able to direct you to a good facility. and then start making your own compost to "top off" your beds as needed.
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Here is a link that might be useful: Jon's Wonderful Garden 2010
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