"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers.
Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul."
— Luther Burbank
It’s all about
the Dirt!
Building your soil is one of the most important things you can do for a healthy happy garden.
Spring will be here before we know it. The sun will warm the earth, and our gardens will burst to life after all.. that.. rain! Now is a great time to get organized and have a game plan! Breaking chores down into manageable chunks helps ensure a beautiful, plentiful garden. Healthy soil is the first step to an abundant growing season.
Amendments that increase the soil’s organic matter improve the water holding capacity and infiltration in soils, promoting resilience to climate-related impacts such as drought, heat waves, or heavy rains. Additionally, research shows that amendments can promote biological activity and supply vital nutrients, resulting in healthier plants that are less vulnerable to pests and disease. MIX Garden has a great selection of composts to fit your needs.
MIX Garden Compost is our most popular blend, providing high value with multiple uses. A custom mix of rice hulls, aged cow manure, green recycled martial, and grape pomace improves fertility and soil tilth. It is great as a top dressing, mulch, or used liberally as a soil amendment.
Cold Creek Compost from Mendocino County is made from a rich mixture of chicken manure, grape pomace, and recycled green material. The aged chicken manure gives it a boost of nitrogen that some manure-less composts lack. It has become a favorite among local vineyard growers and gardeners.
Mushroom Compost, the by-product of a mushroom farm, is an aged blend of horse manure, straw bedding, gypsum, and mushroom farm waste. High in Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium, this amendment works well mixed into soil and helps break up clay.
Organic Compost is a combination of green recycled material and grape pomace. There is no manure in the potassium-rich compost that is screened coarsely to help break up clay soil.
If you have new raised beds or need to top off existing ones, MIX Garden Mix is your answer. This high quality custom blend is ready to go, as we have perfected the recipe over time. The base of this soil blend is our MIX Garden Compost which helps retain moisture and provides soil tilth. Chicken manure, blood meal, and feather meal are added to provide long term nitrogen essential to plant growth. Screened loam, lava rock, and sand provide good drainage and minimize compaction. Soil sulfur is added to adjust PH.
MIX Garden Soil has more screened loam so it will shrink less than our MIX Garden Mix and is perfect for shrubs and ornamentals. Lava rock and sand provide drainage and sulfur keeps the pH adjusted for maximum uptake of all essential plant nutrients.
Drop by or call us at MIX Garden so we can help you find the right amendment or soil for all your gardening projects.