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i am putting in raised beds and am trying to figure out what to fill them with.
for my fruit trees i have planted thus far i use cinder soil which i amend with chicken manure and lime.
but i miss real dirt. growing vegetables in cinder soil seems a little weird to me, but i dont know ive never done it maybe it works good? any experience with this?
its just so hard to find real, good dirt here.
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Missing real dirt and needing real dirt are two different things. This isn't Kansas.
Assume the best and ask questions.
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Aw shoots! I was sure I was in Kansas, just an unfamiliar part.
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Cinder soil is great... dirt, the real black beauty soil stuff of the praire is rare here, can be bought in bags in garden dept, or made over time (most of the trucked in stuff is red clays from Hamakua...not quite the black soils you seem to be missing...)
Remember, we are on a very young island, at the baby side of the island...soils here are rare & young
You can really bump up your soils with compost, get an earth machine from a county class, or make a 3'x3'x3' compost pile, wait a bit, then enjoy that black beauty dirt stuff!
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Plant in black cinder with a foot-thick layer of "free" mulch on top.
The mulch melts down and runs into the cinder; just give it a couple of years.
Establish the groundcover as you plant, or you'll be spending weekends with your string trimmer...
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Kelena,
That is a priceless answer.
Carol
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