Bulk compost

sportsman94

Senior Member
Anyone know where to get bulk compost for the garden in middle Georgia? Also, what price is it going for around you? Super sod has a compost for sale that’s $179.99 per cubic yard picked up if I’m not mistaken. That’s the only one I know of around me. Just turned the dirt on my 3000 sq ft garden at the new house so I’m excited to give the old ag field a boost and get some plants in the ground.
 

C.Killmaster

Georgia Deer Biologist
Anyone know where to get bulk compost for the garden in middle Georgia? Also, what price is it going for around you? Super sod has a compost for sale that’s $179.99 per cubic yard picked up if I’m not mistaken. That’s the only one I know of around me. Just turned the dirt on my 3000 sq ft garden at the new house so I’m excited to give the old ag field a boost and get some plants in the ground.

Too bad it's a ways away, but Clarke county has compost for $12 a yard. It originates from wood chips and sewage, but it's pretty good stuff.
 

Milkman

Deer Farmer Moderator
Staff member
If you want freshly chipped the contractor widening 441 through Morgan County has a few mountains of it. I have no idea if it’s available or not.
ER Snell of Snellville is the contractor.
 

livinoutdoors

Goatherding Non-socialist Bohemian Luddite
Be careful with manure compost. More and more of it is contaminated with herbicides nowadays. Not all is but be careful if you go that route. It will kill a garden, for a couple years. If you cut hay then you prob already know.
 

sportsman94

Senior Member
Thanks for all the recommendations fellas! Keep them coming. I’m hoping to find something within about 45 minutes of the perry area, but May end up just having to drive to get some for cheaper. I’ve got a couple mountains of fresh cut wood chips at my moms house which I hope will become good mulch/compost in the next couple years, but I really want to get this soil kick started now.
 

sportsman94

Senior Member
Be careful with manure compost. More and more of it is contaminated with herbicides nowadays. Not all is but be careful if you go that route. It will kill a garden, for a couple years. If you cut hay then you prob already know.

That does worry me. I don’t cut hay, but have heard enough horror stories to scare me away from getting horse or cow manure. Hopefully I can find a good source of something!
 

jiminbogart

TCU Go Frawgs !
Too bad it's a ways away, but Clarke county has compost for $12 a yard. It originates from wood chips and sewage, but it's pretty good stuff.

The scientist guy who used to write a column in the Oconee Enterprise said to stay away from the sewage compost. He said it was full of nasty stuff. Heavy metals and the like.

A lot of horse farms give away all the composted(depending how old it is) horse shavings you want.

I got a couple 30 yard dump trailers full from a buddy of mine(he usually hauls it to the land fill).

He feeds his horses Grazon free hay. I tested the compost by planting seeds in the compost and seeds in a control(top soil) to make sure they germinated the same.
 

doomtrpr_z71

Senior Member
Would you be worried about residual herbicides in that?
Compost it further if you're worried about it, I mean it is free.

You have three choices:

1.
Pay out the nose for something like soil3 from super sod.

2.
Get free compost from the fairgrounds and roll the dice.

3.
Get compost from a sewage treatment plant, it's cheap like in Athens or Douglas and there is nothing wrong with it, it's tested for heavy metals so there's no danger or at least the stuff in Douglas is.
 

C.Killmaster

Georgia Deer Biologist
The scientist guy who used to write a column in the Oconee Enterprise said to stay away from the sewage compost. He said it was full of nasty stuff. Heavy metals and the like.

A lot of horse farms give away all the composted(depending how old it is) horse shavings you want.

I got a couple 30 yard dump trailers full from a buddy of mine(he usually hauls it to the land fill).

He feeds his horses Grazon free hay. I tested the compost by planting seeds in the compost and seeds in a control(top soil) to make sure they germinated the same.

I looked into that before I used it and found that they are supposed to strip all the heavy metals out. Any sort of biological pathogens are killed during the composting process. On top of that, they test for all those things before selling the compost and publish the test results on this website. I haven't turned green or grown an extra finger yet :).

https://www.accgov.com/4457/Commercial-Composting
 

fireman32

"Useless Billy" Fire Chief.
Bunch of horses in the Byron area, I’d imagine some of them folks would let you have all the stall cleanings you could take. I’ve used it a lot, it is weedy though.
 

jiminbogart

TCU Go Frawgs !
I looked into that before I used it and found that they are supposed to strip all the heavy metals out. Any sort of biological pathogens are killed during the composting process. On top of that, they test for all those things before selling the compost and publish the test results on this website. I haven't turned green or grown an extra finger yet :).

https://www.accgov.com/4457/Commercial-Composting


I don't doubt that they "attempt" to strip out the heavy metals, but a government doesn't get much more inept than ACC's.
 

jiminbogart

TCU Go Frawgs !
Bunch of horses in the Byron area, I’d imagine some of them folks would let you have all the stall cleanings you could take. I’ve used it a lot, it is weedy though.

If you compost it won't that kill the seeds?
 

fireman32

"Useless Billy" Fire Chief.
If you compost it won't that kill the seeds?
You would think it would. The pile I used was a mixed pile, the new was consistently piled onto the old. Once you got to the center of the pile, it would be steaming from decay. I may have picked up the weed seed from the outer layers, not sure. The main weed in it was pigweed. It grew veggies really well. I hate that those neighbors moved.
 

livinoutdoors

Goatherding Non-socialist Bohemian Luddite
I don't doubt that they "attempt" to strip out the heavy metals, but a government doesn't get much more inept than ACC's.
Plus dont forget all those meds that everbody is on. Just trace amounts of course.
 

C.Killmaster

Georgia Deer Biologist
I don't doubt that they "attempt" to strip out the heavy metals, but a government doesn't get much more inept than ACC's.

On a different note, I tried to send you a PM but it won't let me for some reason. Is that your feeder I keep hearing behind the pool?
 
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