oldherbacious said:
>> I buy finished compost for 10 dollars a truck load.
I'm envious!
Around here, "Cedar Grove Compost" gets town biosolids for free, plus municipally-collected yard waste (allegedly for free), then composts them a little more and LOADS it down with sawdust and wood products. It looks and smells like woody mulch.
But they sell it at huge prices by the bag, or around $30 per yard plus delivery charges that can add anything from another $30 to sky's-the-limit.
Maybe I shouldn't bash them more than anyone else. I recently saw an ad for $27 / yard sawdust, plus a $90 delivery fee. Maybe I just have trouble adjusting to inflation and urban prices, but that sholuldn't be an ad, that should be an apology!
Instead I buy big-box store bags of "manure mix" for $1.25 / cubic foot. It might be #35 per yard that waqy, plus my gas, but at least it isn;t 80-90 wood!
Linda said:
>> I have some areas where we get leaves at least 12" deep (sigh....)
If you can mix or even top-dress with something high in nitrogen, those might decompose down to 1-2" of humus in a month or two. For example, coffee grounds or fresh grass clippings.
It might even be worth it to buy a bag of urea (cheapest concentrated form of nitrogen, 46-0-0) and scatter it very thinly over those deep leaves.
