Thanks for all the replies hopefully some of you organic guys are still here! I went to check out my local gardening/nursery/landscape suppliers. One has what they call a cascade blend which from their description is harvested at an old mill site woodbased and I'm assuming its cold composted and turned whenever since they didn't mention adding any types of nitrogen(greens) into the mix. The other garden spot had compost that had wood that still looked like wood still visible about 2 inches long and about the width of a twig. I will post pictures once I get on my phone of what they look like as far as smell and feel. The Cascade Blend had these small pebbles in it, I'm assuming for when they go and turn the compost with their machinery. Very crumbly, perfect moisture, no big pieces of wood that I could identify and the smell was earthy, but it wasn't screaming at me type of earthy. Really had to put my nose on it. The other garden spot had a "garden compost" blend which had leaves, grass clippings and things of that nature. I reached into it and it was noticeably hotter then the other spot and the smell was noticeably stronger. Smelled like it had way more life in it? It was hard to identify what it smelled like but I guess I would say it was a sweet smell? I'm assuming it wasn't completely finished. So one had pebbles, one was unfinished. So I scoured the internet for another source that wasn't 3 hours away here in Southern Oregon. I found a worm casting supplier! Jackpot. Now my question is.. Since all the items I need to make a base are all 1 hour away. I wanted to see if I could just go to my local landscape supplier, pick up a 1:1 ratio of sphagnum peat moss and pumice get all my coots amendments mixed in it. Then have them deliver it to my pad and I just top dress heavily on the worm castings instead of having it mixed. Considering the delivery cost it just wouldn't make sense. Thoughts??
I'm thinking pay the big bucks and get quality worm castings instead of bulk pebble ridden compost/unfinished compost. Now just need inputs on the 2(pumice):2(peatmoss):1-2(wormcastings top dressed not mixed).
Got the kelp meal, crab meal, neem seed meal, basalt, oyster, gypsum, and malted barley. Just wished these dang bags had a number of how many cups is in per bag. Seems to vary depending on the supplier.
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