Dirt should be easy!

Finding dirt to put into the poo-hole composting toilet should be easy, but it's not! It's hard!  It has to be fancy chi-chi dirt or your poo hole won't compost correctly. That's why the thieves at Envirolet get away with charging you $100 for a Box Of Dirt.

Thieves.

The Captain nearly had a seizure when he had to pay that much money for dirt. So, off we went to the Internet to mine it for wisdom. Bio-Let, another composting toilet manufacturing company, has the decency to put their dirt recipe online. It includes all manner of weird and exotic items, like high fibrous blond Canadian sphagnum peat moss, perlite, buckwheat hulls, and dried molasses.  Oh, how I wish that were a joke.

After a bit more digging, we've discovered that most potting soil contains the right kind of peat moss, perlite and garden-variety dirt. Sneaky buggers. Why didn't they just say "potting soil"?!

After still more digging, we've reached the point where we're browsing the inventory at farm co-op stores to source the remaining supplies for our dirt project. We've found everything so far except for the dried molasses. I can find it online, but nowhere that will ship to Canada. By Saturday. Because we are OUT of poo-hole chi-chi dirt, and if there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that you do Not want to mess with the harmony of your poo-hole. 

We're still going to have to pay for our fancy dirt, but we'll have a LOT more fancy dirt for the same price.

I really hope this doesn't screw up the poo-hole.