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zands

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Good deals on garden items at Walmart
« on: June 24, 2012, 06:16:18 PM »



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50¢ for either one. I really like the simple hose shut-off valves..... They allow you send a stream of water about 20ft. They act like a spray nozzle. I bought some of each because plastic gets broken and the sun will deteriorate it

I also noticed WalMart has composted cow manure for only $1.24 a bag plus 40lb bags of conventional 10-10-10 fertilizer for $11. I bought a few bags of the cow manure and some 10 10 10........Both less expensive than at Home Depot. 10-10-10 is good on bananas, on lawns, probably papayas. You can frequently sprinkle some on a compost pile to make it ready sooner. The nitrogen in it breaks down your brown materials such as leaves and wood chips.
This 10-10-10 has quick release nitrogen so can burn plants and no minors such as iron, copper zinc. It is not a premium (more expensive) fertilzer like Excalibur's 8-3-9 and the Citrus, Avocado, Palm fertilizers you will find at Lowes and Home Depot that are recommended for mangoes and other fruit trees

Walmart garden centers vary from store to store. One that is further from me has the hard to find pine bark fines used in potting mixes. It is sold as pine bark mulch @ $3 a large mulch sized bag, same size bag as the other mulches


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Re: Good deals on garden items at Walmart
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2012, 01:52:33 AM »
Thanks for the heads up. My Walmart (Covina) has peat 2.5cu ft for $10 and the pine bark fines is sold as soil improvement amendment for $3.

Too bad I don't live in San Diego anymore. Their free compost program for local residents is great. Also the mushroom growing facilities give away their waste mushroom compost. Mushrooms consume cellulose fiber, leaving nitrogen and chitin fiber.

 

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