could you use entirely compost for garden soil?
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The garden final takes some sort of shape – the compost heap goes to the back wall where it’s going to stay, the concrete slap is broken up and shifted out, the flower beds down the south fence starts to fill with soil, and the earth montain is nicely coming down in size. Both fences are treated and the base of the south fence is whitewashed.
Question by magnezin: could you use entirely compost for garden soil?
I have a couple vegetable plants currently growing, but I want to expand next year. I’m planning on building some raised gardens by next year, and I have a compost pile from vegetable scraps (from 3 people), and some rabbit manure we got off craigslist. when I’ll need to add more soil for the raised gardens, could I just use compost entirely, or should i mix in some local soil? I figured if there isn’t enough, I could buy some topsoil and mix that in.
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yes you can. When compost is totally broken down, it turns into soil. Depending on how big your garden is going to be, you might not have enough,so adding the topsoil wouldn’t be a bad idea.
Little Mermaid
January 13, 2012 at 2:51 pm
It’s not advisable to use entirely a pure compost in your garden. You see, pure compost is imbalance in terms of soil nutrient requirements of your vegetable. You need to add some garden soil and sand in your soil mix to get a balance soil nutrients.
Cris
January 13, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Compost should never be used on its own as a growing mediem in vegi gardens its often used around seedlings to help with starting off.
Compost should always be blended with the soil that you have.
As required i purchase two trailer loads 6×4 trailer per year to spread over garden like a mulch’
when was making garden bed for vegi patch the supplier that i picked up from insisted i take only blended mix for it which is what i did.
It can be a risk bringing in topsoils due to weeds etc always better if possible to improve your own soil with compost which you have made.
have given you a link to a site on compost for home gardener it might be helpful. .
http://www.recyclenow.org/r_composting_tips.html
Hills!
January 13, 2012 at 3:03 pm
You need to keep in mind that as organic matter breaks down it forms carbonic acid which makes soil minerals available to the plants. So as was already mentioned, it’s not a complete source of plant nutrition. A wonderful amendment, but that’s all.
Gabriel Gnu
January 13, 2012 at 3:47 pm