>> In the end, only kindness matters.
I like that!
>> Bermuda grass.
You win the "awfullest soil" competition! Anyone with bermuda grass has it worse than anyone without. I'll even take my horsetail, Ranunculus / Buttercup , Cardamine / Bittercress and purslane in preference to THAT.
>> Bright gold, thick, rocky, clay.
It sounds prettier than my dark gray, but if we had a look-alike contest for kindergarten modelling clay, I might win. (That is to say, "lose".)
>> I'm somewhat fanatical - every kitchen scrap ...
I think we have to be fanatical when we don't have access to lots of lawn clippings, leaves or manure. I've started saving non-glossy paper during seasons when the garden is producing green things that can go into the pile when dead. But most of the year, most of what I have is woody.
Local coffee shops either "mix the grounds with their garbage and trash", or have it recycled comemrically by Cedar Grove.
My take on CG (though this may vary by region) is that they get biosolids and yard waste for free, mix it with VAST amouns of sawdust, and then charge for it through the nose.
Maybe the retail bags of CG compost are better quality than the cubic-yard dirt-yard CG "compost". My dirt-yard guy saw me grimacing at that pile, then later asking him where the compost was ... he admitted that he calls their CG "compost" MULCH ... when he sells any.
I think it was $38 or $42 per yard delivered, and
I just won't pay that for flavored sawdust!
If I had some way to haul biosolids, they're free! The manager of that plant seemed eager to give it away to someone other than CG - I wish he had a bagger! I would haul 60% water / 40% biosolids in my trunk, if it were in bags.
