Timeline for What's the purpose of mixing native soil with store bought soil?
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| Mar 14, 2017 at 14:30 | comment | added | Wayfaring Stranger | "Garden soil" is quite a versatile product name. I've gotten what looked like nice forest loam with that name, I've also gotten what appears to be lake bottom silt dredgings from just above the dam, stuff that won't pass water in a million years, but called again "Garden soil". | |
| May 19, 2014 at 5:31 | vote | accept | JoJo | ||
| May 17, 2014 at 1:29 | comment | added | OrganicLawnDIY | @JoJo, I didn't read anything about sewage or human poop (that's Milorganite) but the reviews matched up with how you described it as "like that of ground up wood chips". As wood decomposes it actually uses nitrogen in the soil so having the wood in the soil actually decreases the fertility, the opposite of what you probably want. Though the "soil" does have added fertilizer. You should probably start new questions on the problems you're having. For starters I would recommend you send a soil sample from your problem areas to local Univ Coop Extension office. extension.org | |
| May 16, 2014 at 22:17 | comment | added | JoJo | I have read some outrageous reviews of Kellogg soils saying that they use sewage and human poop. Not one of those reviews provided proof, so I'm inclined to think that they were written by competitors to Kellogg. So what should I do if my plants are already in the ground? Can I wait it out and let that "soil" decompose? Will it become true soil after time? What I'm getting at is I have no idea what soil actually is. I always thought of it has decomposed stuff that have passed through earthworms. | |
| May 16, 2014 at 16:34 | history | edited | Niall C.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 16, 2014 at 16:10 | history | answered | OrganicLawnDIY | CC BY-SA 3.0 |