Why I Dont Buy Organic Compost - How I Enrich My New Garden Bed Naturally

Starting a New Raised Garden Bed? Looking for ways to enrich your soil? Instead of buying organic compost, do this instead. You'll be glad you did! You can learn more about organic gardening on my website at: www.greenlivin...

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First off thanks for the video. Well crap, I didn’t know the city slur thing that sucks. I normally use organic garden soil 50% and organic potting mix 50% when planting anything. I also like to use green onions and garlic around my plants for bug protection. I also have clay where I’m at. We are bag reliant- Home Depot, and we do have a couple nurseries. Minus the horse manure, what would you recommend?

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Chicken manure and rabbit manure are great. And I don't know if the city stuff gets into the bags of soil. The video I saw was particularly pointing to the compost and fertilizers (so-called organic). I saw the video a while ago so I'll see if I can find it again. I still buy the organic soil as I don't have a good replacement for that and I haven't seen the stringy weird stuff in that like I did with the compost bags, so they may be just fine. What I notice more with the organic soil is that it's mostly made of decomposed wood so I still use it.

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Here's an article on the city sewer getting into fertilizers. Again, I don't know how much this affects compost but I do recall the bags I bought a few years ago had some definite non-organic content that I found when I pulled out the stringy stuff. It was definitely not breaking down so I questioned it then. So again, with soil you're probably fine and with compost, you just have to be cautious if you don't have any other options. Here's the article I found just now: www.sierraclub.org/sludge-garden-toxic-pfas-home-fertilizers-made-sewage-sludge

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This one details with the compost issue. Perhaps you can still get truly organic compost. I just bought the cheap stuff at Walmart or Home Depot years ago when I last used it so it probably wasn't that good. - www.planetnatural.com/compost-sewage/

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@@GreenLivingOffGrid ok thanks for the links I’ll watch them now- a little scared lol. I also found like blue tarp like stringy stuff in a couple bags a few years ago when I was paying attention but thought nothing of - I was very trusting then.

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