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  • From: idyllwild farm <idyllwildfarm AT gmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] McEnroe Farms Potting Soil
  • Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:18:45 -0500

I'm glad someone else responded bc I used McEnroe stuff through out the 90s, past the point of their challenges and it always grew good plants. That was confirmed for me when UK (kentucky) got ahold of some two years ago and had similar good results. Just wish we had something like it in the midwest...


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:04 PM, David Paysnick <davepays AT gmail.com> wrote:
This will be my 6th year using McEnroe's potting mix for all of my transplants and I have been very happy with the performance and consistency of their product.  I regularly recommend it to other growers and all have been happy with it as well.  Here in the Pioneer Valley, many of the Organic farms are using McEnroe's products to produce transplants for field and market.  The prices are very reasonable and the quality is better than anything else I have found in Western Mass (except maybe Vermont Compost).  There are a few weed seeds, maybe a couple/tray.  It tends to have plenty of nutrition and rarely needs fertilizer for most transplants unless they are in very small cells. 


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Frank Ventura <frank.dragonflyfarms AT gmail.com> wrote:
We are trying to decide which organic compost based potting soil to purchase this season to use for our vegetable starts.

We are considering McEnroe Farms from Millerton, NY.   (http://www.mcenroeorganicfarm.com/composting/growing)  Has anyone used their potting soils before?  I spoke with someone who did use them but it was a number of years ago and he recalls the farm having trouble with the blends but doesn’t remember the specific issue.  I would hope any issues back then would have been resolved by now.  Their prices are very reasonable for 1 and 2 ton sling bags.

There is always Vermont Compost but that will cost me at least a $1000 more for my needs.




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