Sunday, May 4, 2014

sifting really crappy potting soil

i bought the worst potting soil ever. miracle grow organic choice potting soil. i only picked it because it was right *there* inside the store and didnt require me going out to the farthest corner of the outdoor garden center in inclement weather to get what i wanted. i should have tho. i will never buy that crap again. it came infested with tiny little gnat/fruit fly type bugs that got all over my house, and infested the dirt in the tortoise enclosure too! and it was half woodchips. HALF! big woodchips. crappiest most worthless bags of wasted money. i had a lot of trouble getting my seeds to sprout in this. never again. do not buy this crap.

a sieve i finally bought after so many seeds failed to survive all those woodchips
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woodchips
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sifting still let a lot of those woodchips thru
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usable potting soil. what i got out of two 32 quart bags, minus all the woodchips. this is a 10 gallon/40 quart container.
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more woodchips
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molly came to investigate the woodchips, see if they were edible (i got two of these bins full of woodchips)
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not edible, so she laid down next to them.
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oh hi! can i eat it now? (no!)
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