New Mexico Compost Products – Soilutions Inc

The pride of gardening begins when you prepare your soil. Soilutions is the BEST resource in Albuquerque for getting top-​grade compost, soil, wood chips, seed chips, etc. for your garden. Not only are their prices unbeatable, they are knowledgeable and they recycle food scraps from restaurants and facilities all over town to produce their compost!
Pretty proud of myself for shoveling our 9 cubic feet of compost into the trunk of our tiny Kia Rio while wearing brand new Diane Von Furstenburg sandals (because why didn’t I know it was DIY?)

Riddle me this, Batman: How in holy New Mexico hell do all of those weeds grow in the first place? There ain’t no water in the soil!
This conundrum was the first of so many, many learning experiences to bruise my previously perceived Green Thumb ego, back when I bought a house with a big yard because, you know, I thought I wanted my own slice of green in the surrounding brown. I broke my back ripping up the north valley clay soils and seeded a lawn, planted about ten trees and put a big vegetable garden in the far back. I covered the rest of the dirt with woodchips. For about, oh, three months it was a lovely little haven. And then the southwest began to slowly strangle and bleed this midwestern boy, one fucking thorn at a fucking time.
First it was the weeds. Most of ‘em were covered in sick, painful stingers covering the stems and leafs, I needed industrial gloves just to wrap my hands around em. The Chinese Elm (technically Siberian, but whatever) started popping up everywhere, a gnarly witch that sent roots deeper than Hades, unkillable. Squash bugs, oh shit, that epidemic, I could forget about harvesting any water-​filled veggie. Goatheads? Proof there is no god. Forget the lawn, seriously, you idiot, forget the fucking lawn. Want me to go on? Seriously, try me.
Soilutions came to my rescue, and they continue to spell salvation for my sputtering plot o’ darkness and damnation. Lesson one: the only mulch that sufficiently stamps out (most) weeds are pecan shells, which they carry. Otherwise, line the ground with weed barrier before topping it with wood chips or other mulches, Soilutions has about six varieties. Plant your vegetable gardens above ground in boxes. Use native, low-​water varieties of plants (Plants of the Southwest has ‘em), bury ‘em in Soilutions dirt and compost. Finally, if you don’t have a truck to hoist the goods, Soilutions delivers. Slowly, following years of sweat and tears, I have a yard worth pimping, and I’m not pulling up Chinese Elms anymore. This is THE resource for the unenthusiastic backyard enthusiast.