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| I would appreciate some help with a recipe of amendments for sandy soil which I am planting marathon 2 grass from seed. To keep it simple, can you share your thoughts on a good ratio of the products offered at Lowes or Home Depot [i must do this using bags as opposed to having a topsoil company dump it in my driveway]
So... as an example perhaps it would be 3 cu ft of Premier peat moss (or other), plus to 20 cu ft of Kellogg N'Rich Organic Compost (or other), plus 20 cu ft of Kellogg Amend. Could also use the E.B. Stone products from Armstrong Nursery if you have ideas along those lines. Thanks so much |
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| What ever you use, check into buying a pallet, often you can save money. |
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- Posted by toxcrusadr 5 (My Page) on Wed, Oct 31, 12 at 10:28
| I haven't used the Kellogg Amend, but a quick Googling indicates it's basically compost with some fertilizer added as well as gypsum. You certainly don't need gypsum since it's for improving the texture of clay soil. The fertilizer value could probably be obtained cheaper elsewhere - for example, plain old compost has NPK. If it were me I would get 2 bags of compost instead of one bag of Amend. Peat moss will add organic matter but I'm not real sure if it will do anything special in a sandy soil that compost won't. It's fairly expensive compared to locally made compost. I would also look at their cheaper brands of compost. Sometimes these are real crap and have a lot of soil in them, but sometimes you get lucky and it might look almost as good as the fancy stuff. If there isn't a broken bag to look in, discretly poke a finger-sized hole in one and take a look. |
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| Rent a pickup and go buy it(or free) in bulk. You're going to spend a fortune buying bags of enough amendments from those places to do a lawn. Good amendments for lawns -- I get horse manure for free and my compost for $12/yd. Good Luck. Kevin |
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