Product Overview
A generous bag of premium mushroom compost delivered to your door or garden. This 100% compost is a great alternative to synthetic fertilizers is rich in organic matters and provides nutrients to your soils. This compost material should be worked into exsisting soil or applied lightly as a top layer.
- Covers 1500 SQFT to a 1/4" inch depth
- Nice and tidy bag -no dirt pile
- Save yourself the trips to the garden center
- Save your back from unloading bag after bag
- Each terra-tote contains approx 30 cubic feet of mixture
- Can be placed wherever you like in your yard accessible with our forklift... Just mark an X and we will put it there!
- FREE DELIVERY
Why our Compost?
Our premium Compost is a STA certified, high quality all-purpose compost is our go-to workhorse, thanks to its high organic matter content, broad spectrum of slow release nutrients and beneficial microorganisms. Premium Compost is made from a blend of the highest grade agricultural feedstocks, composted and tested regularly through the US Composting Council's Seal of Testing Assurance (STA) Program to verify and ensure quality and consistency. Applying compost is the best way to build fertile, productive, and healthy soil!
Benefits:
- The fertility supplied by compost is released slowly, lasting for at least an entire growing season if not several years, providing safe and sustainable organic nutrients
- The abundant microorganisms in compost act to enhance the soil’s immune system, helping to fight off and prevent soil diseases
- The physical characteristics of the organic matter help build strong soil structure, creating well aggregated and porous, yet sponge-like soil matrix that is more resistant to compaction. This matrix provides for the right balance of moisture and oxygen in the root zone which promotes healthy deep rooting plants. It also improves the moisture holding capacity of light sandy soils while improving infiltration and permeability in heavier clay based soils
- Improves the cation exchange capacity (CEC) and can help adjust soil pH
Our Premium Compost has a rich brown black color, a fine particle size, and a nice granular texture. With a high organic matter content it has a broad spectrum of essential nutrients, beneficial soil biology and a near neutral pH. This light and spongy compost is screened to 1/2″, and weighs 1250 to 1850 lbs/cubic yard.
How Compost is Made:
Premium Compost is made through the process of aerobically windrow composting post-harvest mushroom compost. Mushroom compost is made from ingredients that include a majority of hay and straw with smaller proportions of horse manure, poultry litter, corncobs, cottonseed hulls, cocoa bean hulls, lime, gypsum and sphagnum peat moss. Some proprietary carbon sources are added to improve the carbon to nitrogen ratio as the windrows are formulated. A bulking agent is also added that increases the oxygen content and temperature of the windrows. After six to nine months of composting the now aged and stabilized compost is moved into large cover-all buildings to cure for several additional months. The end result is a fine, yet slightly granular, texture that is nice to work with and provides a balance of fertility and biology.
Application:
- STA Certified Premium Compost is a great choice for landscape, trees, shrubs, turf, gardens, flowers, fruit, vegetables, farming, commercial construction, reclamation and soil blending
- Topsoil Upgrade: The US Composting Council recommends “Strive for Five”, meaning a good target organic matter content for an ideal soil should be 5% by weight. When amending depleted or shallow soils, first start with a soil test then depending on the results mix in several inches of compost, aiming for a blended end result of 5% organic matter content by weight.
How Delivery Works
- Order - Order online or by phone
- Mark the Area - You do not need to be home for delivery; just mark where you would like the tote dropped with an "X"
- Delivery - We deliver within one week!