Went to Richie Feed and Seed today to get a quote on some soil. We are turning most of our backyard into a vegetable and fruit garden and our soil is a bit questionable (potential contamination) so we are creating some raised beds.
Turns out for the amount of soil we require it will cost us somewhere in the neighbourhood of $800.
I'm sorry? What? Run that by me again... Did you say $800????
<picks herself up off the floor>
Ok then.
I need to come up with a new plan.
I'm thinking of getting a truckload full of compost from the Trail Waste Facility. But I need more than just compost to make me some soil.
I better get investigating because my seedlings are ready to get planted.
Also I bought 3 new tomato plants at the organic farmers' market this morning. One is an heirloom variety called 'Brandywine' and the other two are a yellow cherry variety (not sure of the name) that I know is the most delicious I've ever had because I bought oodles of them last summer at the market.
Ooo and I had a look at my gooseberry plants this morning and they have gooseberries on them! Quite exciting as this is year one for them in the garden so I wasn't expecting them to fruit.
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I don't know much about dirt, except that I often see it free on craigslist or freecycle...don't know if it's the right type or not?
That's a great tip! Thanks Melissa. I'm going to log onto my local freecycle site now and see what's there. :-)
hey there green grrl :)
i hear we have one degree of separation between us! the blogging world get smaller every day.
see you online! :)
gillian
Yeah, our soil is contaminated also. I put in a small raised bed last year (and ordered the dirt from Ritchie's) but the squirrels pulled out all my bean plants and my tomatoes took over most of the space. I did manage to grow a couple of zucs and use some of my basil... am hoping for a more successful year in 2010! : )
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