u/Blecher_onthe_Hudson

I've been changing soil this spring, and have soil from three half barrels, an 18" high x 30"x48" raised bed, and a number of 5 gallon containers to get rid of! Putting it out with the trash in 30 lb bags seems absurd. I don't know what else to do with it! Some of it is beyond amending, The raised bed has had grapes in it for almost 30 years, and it was ProMix BX, basically moss, to begin with. If I knew someone with lawns it could probably be spread to add organic matter. But I don't, I live in a very dense area.

Any other row house gardeners with similar scale problems?

So I got a parking ticket notification in the mail. "Huh, I don't remember not paying that one I got a few months ago". Ticket has wrong plate number, and is at 7am in Greenville, a time I am very rarely out of bed, never mind down in Greenville! I'm baffled as even how they linked this to me if all they have is a wrong plate???

So I go to the website, click the "plea" button, login, and simply get sent to the main Courts page!

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I've yet to find a way from this to anyplace having anything to do with parking tickets! Find a case doesn't work. Any experience with this nightmare website?

Sadly, the Reliance and Mars vines I planted almost 30 years ago have died or are dying. They were HUGE in their prime, sprawling 30 ft each on a 10' chain link fence, but seemed to just rot out. They've long been down into our shallow water table and requiring little care but for pruning, I don't know why they're dying except old age. I've started cuttings from the Mars but was surprised the Reliance was utterly dead this spring, it had been declining slower than the Mars.

So, both are delicious, but the Mars purple grapes are far more robust on the vine, the Reliance really have only a few days from ripe to overripe and desiccating. Any suggestions for a different variety to grow that's green or pink that will give us longer to enjoy them?

I'm starting to think the worst, it usually starts to leaf bud by now. This happened once before, my tree with 3 5" trunks killed to the ground. Took a long time to get back to this size, but this winter was rough.

Refilling my containers, and my compost barrel is not nearly enough. I need like 5-10 cubic ft. I could put a tarp in my minivan and pick up bulk not bags if it's available somewhere. I don't need so much that I could order a full yard delivered. It's weird that the city collects for compost, but never makes it available to residents. Do suburbs that compost check for resident status for pickup?