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Tuesday, April 09, 2013
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P and P (Pilot and Pumpkin Grower)
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Issaquah, WA
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The Cedar Grove Dirt seems to be a large part of the foaming stump and root rot problems in our patch. Our patch was built on top of our old play area. It had a couple inches of pea gravel that settled into the clay base below. We built a raised bed on top of the clay.we have been adding dirt ever since. It's about 12-18 inches deep. We have built it mostly on cedar grove booster blend. This now seems to be contributing to some of the problems in the patch. In combination with high phosphorus fertilizers (blooming aids) we have used in the past, our levels are very high. Jeff and I discussed the need to drastically change our soil composition. We knew we needed to add sand to increase drainage. We than began looking for honest top soil. Basically soil from a farm. Not blended topsoil that is available at most of the larger soil producers made from compost and other organics. This turned out to be a tougher task that I thought. I called just about every soil place in the hone book and finally found a very nice guy named mark that has a materials operation near the Sea-Tac airport.
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