Sure Sign of Spring: Philly Muni Compost

It’s back for the season. And for Philadelphia residents, it’s free for the taking at the Recycling Center in Fairmount Park, at 3850 Ford Road, courtesy of the Department of Parks & Recreation. The department doesn’t seem to have posted any test results lately, but they had a sample checked out by the Penn State Agricultural Analytical Services Laboratory several years ago and it passed muster. I add thick blankets of it each year to my gardens, and it’s great stuff, as far as I’m concerned-much better than my homemade compost, which I have to use judiciously because it’s full of weed seeds.