A Soil Amendment for Your Landscaping
Daniel's Fine Soil AmendmentPlant Oregon sells a special soil amendment in the local area. We use this material extensively in the nursery, working it into the soil and using it for mulch. We've been calling this material our compost, a good shorthand term for the process and product.
Daniel has soil-building skills which he learned from his grandfather and the late Peotyr Giffen, the Rogue Valley horticulturalist par excellence of Ashland. Creating this soil amendment is one of Daniel's hobbies. And like making good cheese, it's the culture that counts.
Dan starts with a fine peatmoss-like wood fibre and adds mountains of horse manure, alfalfa hay, fresh ground tree chips, kelp, molasses, and a microbially active culture which he has developed over many years using an old Swiss recipe. He piles the mixture, turns it, waters it and covers it, making sure it doesn't get too hot--just enough to kill any seeds. When the product has aged sufficiently to satisfy his demanding criteria, it is ready to be used .
Light, fluffy and highly carboniferous, this living material is now perfect to add to any area where you want plants to thrive.
This microbially-rich soil amendment brings the life back into the soil, encouraging earthworms, soil invertebrates and beneficial fungi and bacteria--all things that plants need in order to prosper.
This soil amendment can turn horrid construction compacted clay into a workable layer of friable soil--just what plants want.
Available in ten-yard loads, $250 delivered in the Rogue Valley.
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