Where to find cheap soil for your garden #garden #soil #homegrown #vegetablegarden #floridagarden

where to find cheap soil for your garden

I get asked all of the time, were I buy soil to fill my garden beds and containers. First, check with your local trash/waste disposal landfill and see if they give out free compost to your community. Unfortunately mine does not, so I need to buy soil. To be honest, I buy the cheapest compost I can find. I've been doing this for years, and have had no issues. If it a big project that would require a lot of soil, then I buy in bulk from a local company (KAXINC can find them on Instagram), and have it delivered. I also fill up the bottom of containers and garden beds with whatever sticks, leaves, and plant matter I can find. This takes up room, which requires less soil, and will compost down over time.

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[cantwealljustgetalong]

this exact bag of compost is 2 dollars a bag right now at my local walmart. i bought like 40 bags yesterday lol

[stevenwood]

i remember that compost manure blend used to cost $1.49 back in 2017

[nicholasbenedetto]

I make my own compost every fall I end up with around a 9x9x9 pile of leaves. I get a 3 lb bag of blood meal ( around $10) I sprinkle it generously every foot in the pile. I add whatever food scraps over thd winter. Snow and rain provide moisture. In late April early May I sift it through a pair of 1/4" screens and end up with 20 or more 5 gallon buckets of fine compost. And 10 to use to start the next pile. $10 and 3 hrs of my time.

[nicoleowens]

Girl, same! I always use the cheap stuff. It works just fine.

[johnmcguire]

I bought some today. A elderly lady stopped me and said this is the best to use. ❤️

[andys]

I personally hate Timberline. Their top soil is like a clay sludge with trash thrown in. I usually go with Black Kow although it’s apparently gotten a lot more expensive recently

[tribeofgang]

I use a mix of this and my own plus the cheapest top soil lol 😂 gets her done everytime

[MrJaxparadize]

I did that one year. Learned my lesson about compost. Do your own.

[flailingcultist]

Got the same brand and it had a fair amount of trash in it. If you don't mind picking out pieces of glass and plastic while you garden it's perfect.

[oy-wbjv]

Striving for self-sufficiency: rich compost from kitchen/ food waste/ spent plantings, using shredded fall leaves for winter & summer mulching, sourcing clean animal manure for soil amendments, maxing veggie starts from seed, limit bagged fertilizers to organics, focus on building a living soil.

[xdrplaguex]

My grass grew so fast with that exact stiff. I had a huge dry spot, laid some seed down and this stuff and grew in a week two! Highly recommend 🔥

[richardskull]

You have to be careful. The medicine the cattle get, comes out in the manure.
Also what were the cows eating?
Cheap is cheap for a reason.

[PaleGhost]

For the bottom half of your pots, try alternating layers of compost and wood shavings. Helps save some money and increases its ability to store water where the plant can have access if it needs it. For bigger projects, you can do the same thing with sticks and logs, which will save a ton of soil. Just make sure the wood layers are completely filled and alternating is even more important so all sides of the wood are in contact with soil to help decomposition.

This practice is called hugelkulture for those who want to learn more about it.

[hazeysgarden]

I use that same exact stuff for the most part. I mix in other stuff as well homemade compost, coco coir, etc. pretty much whatever I have on hand. But the bulk of what I use is that stuff. It’s 2.38 over here at Lowe’s

[johnboy]

I switched to just doing compost. I know a lot of people get scared away by it but I do the hoop method where you just make a ring with some zip ties out of fencing. Go get yourself some straw and during leaf season just take everybody's Yard waste bags full of leaves and you'll have enough for the year. Go to any farmer and ask them if You can have cow manure and they will laugh at you and say please take it and just layer straw manure and then let it sit somewhere for a few months and watered every so often and you're good to go and a lot of that compost has sand in it and cheap filler real compost should be kind of fluffy but also hold water then just add some bone and blood mill and you're good to go. It's great for putting under bushes in pots or like even filling in bad grass spots all at a fraction of what you're paying for filler😊

[HappyRunMe]

I use this same stuff and for seedlings I’ll mix in a little peat moss sometimes. I’m in Texas and at Lowe’s it was $2.28 recently and my husband gets a nice % off as a veteran (10% I think which is generous). I get it even cheaper. My plants seem to love it so far and I make JLF fertilizer and buy the organic granular (Jobes) and everything is growing great in my grow bags. I’m going to use it soon to top up my garden beds here in the fall before I transplant my brassicas in there for the rest of fall and winter. Apparently the hardiness zones just changed and now I’m in zone 9a instead of 8b. 😱😳Crazy days. Good time to get good deals on compost/soil! 👍🏻

[kprairiesun]

Be careful. Some gardeners have had bagged compost that wasn't composted and burned their plants, killing them all

[King]

I just got a yard of compost for $35 from a bulk mulch company. They'll also do a 50/50 mix with screened topsoil for the same price.

[GardenofNoah]

Thank you so much! Gonna go pick some up tomorrow 🙏🏼

[bridgetwilkins]

I add peat moss and either perlite or vermiculite to the compost. Makes light, fluffly, nutrient dense soil.