Soil so far we have used is a Chocolate Loam, which is our base soil, it is high in sand as its taked from an old riverbed, but that is good as it helps with water better, we will next add a layer of top soil compost to be tilled in in the upper level of the raised beds. The correct mixture for garden beds is 80%Loam & 20%compost. So, yes, we will be adding more organic heavy compost soil to that bed mixture and ours will be a higher level than 20% to give our beds an extra kick as most of the "good stuff" will be in the top half of the bed, our beds are pretty deep. That ground cover around the beds is a test, and if we dont like it by spring we can put something else over top of it, like grass or crushed rock.
**Does anyone have a good free or cheap source for compost?**
Also---- IT IS COLD OUT, so... I dont know if it is wise to plant this fall season as it feels like winter alredy and Margaret insighfully pointed out that the first frost is like Dec 4th or something. So we may wait untill the spring planting season to really get going. This delay will give our beds time to settle and age a bit while we all plan out perfectly how and what to grow. The spring growing season is by far the best anyway as far as variety of vegitables and fruits.
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I'm looking at the soil page at Natural Gardener and the compost they have seems to have some animal manure in it- which I always thought was a good thing.
I wonder why "Dillo Dirt",the city of Austin compost, is not recommended for vegetable gardens:
"From the award winning Austin Wastewater Treatment Plant Composting Facility. All EPA requirements are satisfied for approved use on vegetables and food crops; however the city of Austin does not recommend it for this use."
Free compost? We will have a small amount coming up soon from the little composter container.
Should we have a large leaf pile ?
As Leonardo da Vinci observed, "We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot."
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