Brian of cybology.com, and member of the Men’s Garden Club of Villa Park (not just for men!), just clued me in on a compost gold mine.
If you’ve ever looked for different kinds of compost/manure/etc at the local stores around you, you probably have noticed that all the big box stores seem to sell the same brand. It’s best for your garden to have multiple different kinds so it doesn’t get loaded to one side or the other of the nutrient scale. Well Brian found the gold mine.
Meinke’s Garden Center on Touhy Ave.
5803 Touhy Ave.
Niles, IL 60714
847-647-9455
The bags are 1cu Ft. costs varies. They have Duck, Sheep, Chicken, Bean/alfalfa, mushroom, cow and goat compost. Sweatness!!!
One was 4.75
One was 7.95
the rest were 6.95.
Basically it’s between O’Hare airport and the lake at the cross streets of Des Plaines Rd. and Touhy….If you know where the leaning tower is in Niles….you are almost there just a little further East and it is on the South Side of the Street.
T – I discovered this garden center last year but it was toward the end of the year and all I bought was a Rudbeckia. I’ll check it out. Thanks for the tip!
We have our own compost pile in the backyard full on leaves and kitchen scraps. But I would have no idea on the nutrient values of it or what it might do to my garden beds.
I would always prefer to use my own compost. But for folks who need a good mix of compost because they don’t have their own this should be the place to go. I’m working on my first compost pile so I didn’t have enough to build my 4 raised beds. Thus I had to buy-in 50+ bags of the stuff.