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Comments (14)Home Depot sells Golden Trophy #302 pine bark mulch which sometimes are pine bark fines. It varies from pallet to pallet -- if one bag on the pallet is fine usually the entire pallet is of the same consistency. Keep checking different Home Depots and check all the pallets. I find a good batch at the stores by me at least once or twice a Spring. Once you see they have the good stuff. Buy up as much as you can carry. I have occasionally seen this brand of pine bark at Menards too. For folks on the north side of Chicago, Farmer's Market on 45something north Elston has the real good pine bark fines this year and they had 4 complete pallets about a month ago. I forgot the brand name but it is the best quality of any brand I've tried. Farmer's Market went a couple of years without carrying pine bark so I stopped going there. This year I needed to make a stop there and was very surprised to see it stocked again and in quantity. Unfortunately I didn't need any pine bark....See MoreIs this pine bark fine mixture OK for the 5-1-1 mix?
Comments (4)Thanks for your nice comments - My husband just finished making my 1/8" screed/sieve and now I finally have the ability to sift just about any size material-very exciting! Good point edweather. This is my first time trying the 5-1-1 mix and I have many different plants I need to accommodate in it - Tomatoes, Peppers, Lavender, Blueberries, Fig tree, etc. I want to eventually try out the gritty mix for the fig tree and blueberries, but right now I am going to start them out in the 5-1-1 mix as I have all the necessary ingredients at hand. Any thoughts on the differences between the 5-1-1 mixtures needed for the plants listed above? I have spent a lot of time reading past posts about the 5-1-1 mix and I vaguely remember Al(tapla) saying that the fine dust should not make up more than 1/6 of the total mix. I don't remember if that was in reference to a particular plant or if that is a general rule. One more question - After I make up a batch of the 5-1-1 mix can I use it right away or do I need to let it sit a while because of the lime?...See MorePBFs found! 5-1-1 mix at last!
Comments (4)Congrats. I know exactly how you feel. I found mine at Ohio Mulch, only 97 miles away, middle of nowhere. I loaded my SUV with 17 bags, drove 1/4 mile, and SUV said, "Not one step further." Had to be towed. I'm laughing now. Ha....See MoreWould these bagged Pine Fines be worth screening for the 5:1:1 mix?
Comments (3)The top one looks great. The bottom one is probably acceptable, I've used bark with a similar amount of sapwood. Not ideal but probably OK. For 5-1-1, the intention is that you should not need to screen at all. Guidance for 5-1-1 pine bark is dust to 1/2" with a majority being close to 3/8". Your top bark looks like screening at 1/2" is probably a waste of time for the tiny amount it might eliminate. Before bothering to screen bark destined for 5-1-1 for fines, I'd mix up 1 pots worth (with appropriate amounts of perlite+peat) and see how it drains - you dont need to use a plant for this. Since you already screened some, you can do a side by side. I have found myself screening 5-1-1 bark for fines, at times, but usually that means you just need to shop a bit more for bark sources. You can also eliminate the peat if the bark starts out with "too many" fines. Daniel...See Moretapla (mid-Michigan, USDA z5b-6a)
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