A Bit About My Soil Choice.

As always, I got my soil supply from this place near our old family home this past Tuesday.

I love the soil here because it is good, natural, earth. Not chemically treated or fertilized. Thus, most rich in welcome soil creatures and microorganisms ( though it did once, almost scare me to death with a black, shiny-skinned, 2 inch-long centipede in it ). 

Also, because it is not pre-bagged in environmentally-unfriendly, suffocating and possibly toxic plastic bags.

The place is a small, home-based cow farm. Supplying soil is only a small part of the farm's business. They would only dig for the soil within ( sometimes outside ) their farm and mix it with cow manure ( often fresh one ), upon receiving orders from their customers.

They sell their soil in loads and have them transported to their customers' places in bullock carts. It cost only RM 50 per cart-full load of cow manure plus top soil including bullock cart transport within the town.

Cheap and convenient. Just a phone call to them would have the soil arrive at our place. But I took pity on those poor, old cows! So, I would go and take the soil from the farm myself every time instead, though it would mean having to clean my car a bit after that. 

The farmer was often very accommodating to my request and prepared just a manageable one bag for me each time.

This is the bag of soil ( in a recycled sack ) awaiting my collection outside their house, that he got for me on the morning I ordered this past Tuesday. It is only RM 10.

I had since used it to partially fill up eight of my newly-bought pots and had some mixed fruit and vegetable seeds sown direct onto them.

Pray that some happy sprouts would emerge from them soon! Wish me luck! 😁