smelly top soil
mik...@my-dejanews.com
is sold by the name of "Country garden" and made by Interloch corp.
This stuff SMELLS so bad it's hard to be within 20 feet of it. What gives?
Will the smell eventually disapate (it's been out of the bags for 2 days)or is
this going to be forever? Anything I can do? (water it?, add anything to it?)
Thanks for any response and tips on this. (Also, it looks very sandy). Maybe
it's from the beaches of Lake Erie.
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Rev Chuck
>
> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:17:00 GMT, mik...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> >Just bought some 40lb bags of top soil at that corporate monster, Lowes. It
> >is sold by the name of "Country garden" and made by Interloch corp.
> >This stuff SMELLS so bad it's hard to be within 20 feet of it. What gives?
> >Will the smell eventually disapate (it's been out of the bags for 2 days)or is
> >this going to be forever? Anything I can do? (water it?, add anything to it?)
> >Thanks for any response and tips on this. (Also, it looks very sandy). Maybe
> >it's from the beaches of Lake Erie.
>
> Hechinger's. I dumped it. That kind of stuff is a little too
> worrisome to me - you have no idea where it might of come from.
>
> -Mike
> fa...@fschobbies.com
Topsoil is plain soil. Silt. Completely decomposed matter, can't
decompose any farther. Topsoil has no smell.
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M. Romagnoli
Jeff & Susan Stringer
Is this just the year for stinky soil? I bought 40 bags of topsoil, 40 pounds each
at Walmart.
We are moving into a new house with a dreadful front yard. After 20 years of
being rental property, the front yard was lucky to get mowed once in a blue moon.
It has 3 oak trees providing lots of shade and raising the acid level to high for
grass. So I put out palletized lime, which had gotten wet and smelled like Doggy
Doo. Then I opened up the bags of topsoil and started spreading it around. It
smelled like Cow Manure!
When my husband got home with the next load of boxes from the old house, he got
out of the truck and said "WHEW! Baby, the yard smells like Sh*t!" I told him,
"Manure dear, it's good for the plants." Here's hoping that I wasn't to far off.
This late in the spring of Tennessee, I don't have much more time before the
summer heat and droughts hit, so I just decided to grin and bear it. I tossed in
my Starter Fertilizer and Pennington tall fescue, lightly raked the whole mess
together and prayed for the best. After I watered it, we got some rain. Most of
the stinky soil is still where I put it. Every time it gets wet, it smells.
Sure hope the grass sprouts soon!
Hugs,
Susan
mik...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> Just bought some 40lb bags of top soil at that corporate monster, Lowes. It
> is sold by the name of "Country garden" and made by Interloch corp.
> This stuff SMELLS so bad it's hard to be within 20 feet of it. What gives?
> Will the smell eventually disapate (it's been out of the bags for 2 days)or is
> this going to be forever? Anything I can do? (water it?, add anything to it?)
> Thanks for any response and tips on this. (Also, it looks very sandy). Maybe
> it's from the beaches of Lake Erie.
>
C. A. Owens
mik...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> Just bought some 40lb bags of top soil at that corporate monster, Lowes. It
> is sold by the name of "Country garden" and made by Interloch corp.
> This stuff SMELLS so bad it's hard to be within 20 feet of it. What gives?
> Will the smell eventually disapate (it's been out of the bags for 2 days)or is
> this going to be forever? Anything I can do? (water it?, add anything to it?)
> Thanks for any response and tips on this. (Also, it looks very sandy). Maybe
> it's from the beaches of Lake Erie.
What does it smell LIKE? Most 'rot'-type smells will usually go away.
Most 'chemical'-type ones aren't likely to do so.
Chris Owens
sab...@2xtreme.net
We bought a house last year that was termite-tented just before we
bought it... so naturally, I assumed the sour smell eminating from the
soil on the shady side of the house was from the termite stuff... but
its still there, after a year of sun and wind and rain, and the plants
that were there after the tenting are still there, so it doesn't seem to
be harming them... it just smells bad, and the soil is the typical
dense, claylike soil of the San Francisco Bay Area. The plants there,
besides grass and the occasional clover and dandelions (I'm a lazy
gardener ;-) are geraniums, azalea, ivy (too much!), and I just planted
some cyclamen and bluebells near the azalea. I don't know much about
the finer points of gardening, I just try to learn as I go, but
somethin's rotten in Denmark... or in this case, Oakland... ;-)
Anyway, any suggestions appreciated.
Bracey
Bracey
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M. Romagnoli
<cdub@-REMOVE_THIS-erols.com> wrote:
>>
>> I got some really bad looking and smelling topsoil last year from
>> Hechinger's. I dumped it. That kind of stuff is a little too
>> worrisome to me - you have no idea where it might of come from.
>>
>> -Mike
>> fa...@fschobbies.com
>
>Topsoil is plain soil. Silt. Completely decomposed matter, can't
>decompose any farther. Topsoil has no smell.
>
Well, yeah, no kidding - no smell other than that of plain
soil....that's why this stuff was really weird - and that's why I
dumped it!
-Mike
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