Pooyie Compost Mix

[Matt G]

Anybody use the Pooyie Compost mix for their gardens? I picked up a couple yards for my raised bed and noticed that it's a fairly dense mixture. Tons of topsoil and not nearly enough compost or peat moss. Once it gets wet, it starts to clump and packs solid. Anybody else had this issue with it?

I'd like to mix in some more peat moss but my plants are already in the ground and I don't feel like digging them all up. Granted, my tomatoes look like crap and may have to be replaced. Any suggestions?

[lil bubba]

I don't know how big of a bed you have but home depot sells a cheap topsoil that I used to break up my clay I had...It's $1.69 a bag and it's mostly sand and really small woodchips...You could take and spread a lil layer on top and work it in with a rake...

[ragincajun]

I have been using the Pooyie for several years and have good success with it. This is my garden from last year. Now you still have to add fertilizer to any soil. I did a soil test on it and I know several people who did the same that use Pooyie and our fertilizer recommendations were very similar. PM me if you would like me to send them to you. The amount of fertilizer that they tell you to put seems very small but I have gone a year without doing it and the difference it makes is tremendous.

[Matt G]

Originally Posted by lil bubba

I don't know how big of a bed you have but home depot sells a cheap topsoil that I used to break up my clay I had...It's $1.69 a bag and it's mostly sand and really small woodchips...You could take and spread a lil layer on top and work it in with a rake...

My bed is 4' x 16'. It's just regular topsoil? Would you know the brand right off hand?

Originally Posted by ragincajun

I have been using the Pooyie for several years and have good success with it. This is my garden from last year. Now you still have to add fertilizer to any soil. I did a soil test on it and I know several people who did the same that use Pooyie and our fertilizer recommendations were very similar. PM me if you would like me to send them to you. The amount of fertilizer that they tell you to put seems very small but I have gone a year without doing it and the difference it makes is tremendous.

PM sent!

[seachaser250]

Originally Posted by Matt G

Anybody use the Pooyie Compost mix for their gardens? I picked up a couple yards for my raised bed and noticed that it's a fairly dense mixture. Tons of topsoil and not nearly enough compost or peat moss. Once it gets wet, it starts to clump and packs solid. Anybody else had this issue with it?

I'd like to mix in some more peat moss but my plants are already in the ground and I don't feel like digging them all up. Granted, my tomatoes look like crap and may have to be replaced. Any suggestions?

If you had been home schooled you'd know to how solve this problem.

[Matt G]

Originally Posted by seachaser250

If you had been home schooled you'd know to how solve this problem.

[lil bubba]

It is Gardenese...It will not clump and excess water drains thru...I mix it in my containers with leaf compost or miracle grow garden soil...You could probly lay it an inch thick or so and work it in an inch or so and not hurt your plants any and if need be do it again in a couple weeks...

[B-Stealth]

Originally Posted by seachaser250

If you had been home schooled you'd know to how solve this problem.

loa ohh yea I remember the "soil conditioning" section from the ACT.

[elebouef]

Don't mess with that pooyie. Just get you some horse manure and till it in to your garden. And it is free

[simplepeddler]

Check out the Hook and Crook hoe.........you can layer it in and use the H&C.....it's the real deal

[saute86]

I put pooyie in my garden this year and have have the same problem with my tomatoes. My peppers seem to love it. I am not impressed with it.

[ragincajun]

Matt how is your garden doing?

[Matt G]

Mine has really taken off over the past few weeks after all that rain. The only thing different I've done so far was top it with a few bags of mulch to help retain the moisture. After the summer, I'm going to send off a soil sample and compare the results to the report you emailed me.

[saute86]

This spring I started a fertilizer plant. I got me some rabbits 3 does and 2 bucks. I have been chipper/shredding everything I can get my hands on. I have 6 inches of chips and compost under the cages. Every morning I stir the mix with a garden rake. My plan is to rotate the mix from the compost pile to under the cages then to a finished pile. Once the garden dries out from this weeks round of rains I am pulling up my first green bean crop and going to amend my first row in the garden.

[ragincajun]

Matt here is a pic I took yesterday of my garden.

[Matt G]

Looking good man! Everything is doing great in mine except my tomatoes aren't turning red. It's been several weeks already and other than the cherry tomatoes, they are all still green. I had to throw a few that split and the bugs got to.

[ragincajun]

Originally Posted by Matt G

Looking good man! Everything is doing great in mine except my tomatoes aren't turning red. It's been several weeks already and other than the cherry tomatoes, they are all still green. I had to throw a few that split and the bugs got to.

My tomatoes just started turning in the last couple days.