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Tipping fills each flat with a homemade potting mix of about 10 parts well-aged compost to one part sand, which improves the drainage and helps limit surface algae growth and damping-off disease.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2024

If you have sandy or clay soil, you can make it more loamy by adding lots of organic amendments like compost, earthworm castings and well-aged manure from plant-eating animals.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2023

Beinstock auctioned off his collection of grand-cru Burgundies and other well-aged wines to help finance the construction.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019

The city’s historic center, which fans out around twin lawns planted with towering elms, maintains an old New England character, with neo-Gothic towers, well-aged dive bars and working-class neighborhoods of faded but elegant Victorian houses.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2012

Behind them sat unmasked a well-aged pair, "bredouillé," as they used to say of the wall-flowers, with that look of blissful repose which marks the married and established Creole.

From The Grandissimes by Cable, George Washington