Best Vegetable Garden Soil You Can Buy at Walmart + What to Look For
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- John from www.growingyour... shares with you all the bagged soil products he purchased at Walmart for $3 (or less) per bag. John will open and show you each soil product and share with you his thoughts and review each one.
In this episode, John will teach you some of the things you will want to be aware of when shopping for any bagged soil products at Walmart or any big box store or even local nursery.
You will discover all the incredible bagged soil deals John scored at Walmart, and you will learn how you can determine if Walmart near you has soil products on sale without leaving your home.
You will learn how to discern a good bagged soil vs a bad one. You will discover why soil labeled "organic" may not be organic as you would like.
You will discover how to tell if a soil has too much-uncomposted wood material in it, and the consequences that it can have in your garden.
You will learn how you can test the soil you purchase to determine if it is a soil you should purchase in larger quantities or not.
You will discover how much large unscreened material is contained in each bagged soil product tested.
Jump to the following parts of this episode:
0:04:26 Deals I found at Walmart
0:07:05 Bagged Soil Products Comparison Starts
0:08:00 EcoScraps Compost Review
0:08:05 The Scam of Organic on Bagged Soil Products
0:16:19 Earthgro Potting Soil Review
0:21:00 Why your vegetable may turn yellow when planted in bagged soil
0:21:39 Magic Dirt Premium Potting Soil
0:29:18 Miracle-Gro Nature's Care Organic Potting Mix
0:31:50 How Heavy Should your bagged soil product be?
0:38:50 Just Natural Organic Container Potting Mix
0:46:21 OMNI Seed Cover and Planting Compost
0:49:41 Greensmix Sphagnum Peat Moss
0:54:13 Summary and My Favorite Bagged Soil Products
0:57:22 My suggestions to Bagged Soil Producers
1:00:49 How to find clearance deals on soil products at Walmart from home
After watching this episode, you will learn the best-bagged soil product at Walmart that I found. You will also learn how to determine if a bagged soil product is good or not.
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Jump to the following parts of this episode:
0:04:26 Deals I found at Walmart
0:07:05 Bagged Soil Products Comparison Starts
0:08:00 EcoScraps Compost Review
0:08:05 The Scam of Organic on Bagged Soil Products
0:16:19 Earthgro Potting Soil Review
0:21:00 Why your vegetable may turn yellow when planted in bagged soil
0:21:39 Magic Dirt Premium Potting Soil
0:29:18 Miracle-Gro Nature's Care Organic Potting Mix
0:31:50 How Heavy Should your bagged soil product be?
0:38:50 Just Natural Organic Container Potting Mix
0:46:21 OMNI Seed Cover and Planting Compost
0:49:41 Greensmix Sphagnum Peat Moss
0:54:13 Summary and My Favorite Bagged Soil Products
0:57:22 My suggestions to Bagged Soil Producers
1:00:49 How to find clearance deals on soil products at Walmart from home
Learn Organic Gardening at GrowingYourGreens ...love the timestamps super helpful info... Big like from the Fairy Frequency channel! 🦋 wishing you a beautiful evening x)
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Learn Organic Gardening at GrowingYourGreens I recently tried the Nature's Care, and I definitely wasn't impressed. However, the batch that I had gotten had plenty of Perlite. Either way, that soil holds moisture for so long (Florida) that algae grows on the surface. And after watering for the first time, the surface looks like all shredded wood. (Edit1) To be fair to that product, I wasn't aware of the difference between "potting mix" and "garden soil".
(Edit2) I gave EcoScraps a try this go around, before finding the bad reviews. It had food labels, drinking straws, and some other misc. trash in it. It makes sense, being that the stuff is reclaimed from landfills. However, I can't see how they get away with being Certified Organic. Also, the material didn't seem to be fully composted, looked more brown when dried. It had a bit of an off odor, though were old bags on clearance outside.
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He made a 1 hour long video and did not put in one ad. 🤯 impressive
Pay the $10 for CZcams Red. Is the 300 minutes of life you lose a month watching CZcams and not watching ads not worth the $10?? If not, you're living like a hobo. My time is valuable! I just wasted $25 talking to you..
Jump to 2020, it’s $16 a month for CZcams premium. Expensive but worth it to never have to watch a commercial.
@@JenMarco $16 a month or a lifetime free "AdBlock for youtube" extension lol.
I'm today years old. Using CZcams since early 2000 and just realized it was the creators putting in the adds 😆
Do they get something if we go with the subscription??
John, you have gone to a lot of effort to educate us. Thank you for your service. I learn from each of your vids. Thanks
Ditto! Thanks John!
Kudos for the Video clip! Forgive me for butting in, I am interested in your opinion. Have you tried - Parlandealey Impetigo Goodbye Process (do a google search)? It is an awesome one off product for finding some amazing landscaping designs for your home minus the headache. Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my BF after many years got amazing success with it.
Apologies for multiple comments, I do save all my plastic soil/manure bags and use them to kill certain weed patches, or fill with perennial weeds to throw in trash, or for dog poo. Just thought you might encourage others to re-use those large plastic bags!
Plastic releases lots of chemicals in the air when exposed to heat. If you want an easier option there is carpenters paper. Plus if you know John he would never use plastic in his garden.
I added the cactus mix 1 cubic foot bag to my other organic mixes bags yrs ago. I had a meter, for testing soil, it said perfect soil. I was real proud. My peppers grew like crazy in that.take care.
When looking for a organic soil:
1. Dont instantly think organic means good/healthy
2. Look for something like *OMRI listed for organic use* on the bag. This means its an organic certified material for use to produce organic food ONLY then can you really call ur food organic.
3. The OMRI listed - Organic Material Review Institute - has products that are allowed and not allowed by the NOP which is the national organic program. Things like sewage sludge or biosolids are not allowed by under OMRI or the organic program
4. If ur bag just says organic it can contain it may contain sewage sludge and biosolids.
5. In the ingredients it could have compost listed, this could be good or bad. Compost could mean composted sewage sludge or anything like it. If they dont specify what the compost is made of, that could be a bad sign. A good example of a specification of compost is yard trimmings and food scrapes.
6. Have a screen to break down big chunks of soil and to catch debre like plastic, glass or wood.
7. Smell the soil.It should just smell like dirt.
8. Do a pot test.
9. Recommeded-make a soil mixture
Soil would buy again: EcoScrapes, Magic dirt. Would mix 1 bag of the EcoScrapes and 1 bag of the Magic Dirt. Or the Pea moss and Virmiculite.
ty John, I am 69 and starting a raised bed garden,,, u helped me out tremendously
John, it doesn't matter how long the videos are. We need the information. I just learned how to purchase good soil. Thank you
Being a lover of the full explanation, John, and this video, gets an A+. Thanks for taking the time, sir!
I’m so grateful you made this video. I buy a lot of my soil from Walmart since they are the closest to my home. I do like to buy the better products for my plants. You did my homework. Thank you for sharing the brick seed site. I love it.
John. I watch you ever day, that and the guy who does back to Eden garden, the guy with the wood chips, I can't remember his name, but you two are the only ones I watch, and you have educated me soooo much. Last summer I harvested 4 tomatoes from my garden, everything else died, this year I got all kinds of yummy stuff, because I'm educated now, thanks to you!! So thank you for taking the time to make these videos, I appreciate you and your time! Thank you very much!
Hello
How is it going? What soil did you get for your tomatoes? Because mines are dying and so my rosemary plant too 😢Can you please share the other CZcamsr name?
As a new cannabis grower, i found this video to be very informative. i love all the chemistry and science behind your videos.
I want to learn how to grow cannabis plants!!!
scary how price have more than doubled in 2022 even for soil. This is probably the best video on soil i have seen. I wasted a good 15 min following John's explanation about Walmart then found out their website is now making it impossible to do any of that inventory checking and price per store. Most likely intentionally they want to dispower the consumer. Usa corporate oligarchy.
You’re a guy i trust when comes to Blenders/juicing machines and now I recently started gardening and i am soo happy to find your channel on gardening
I am trying to keep my garden as organic as possible And super confused when comes to soil mixes and compost 😅
Again thanks a lot for your time and help
How is it going? What soil brand did you get? I’m currently growing tomatoes l, peppers, cooking herbs and rosemary (my rosemary is dying) and I’m so confused about the soils to get for potting
Thanks for all you do. You demonstrate care for the environment within reason and you care that your fellow humans are able to enhance their gardens with honest data. We love you☺
& on a budget & unbiased without trying to sell us anything...much respect
Yes John, this video was long but a necessary one. Thank you for taking the time to make this one. ChazinNJ
I use most of those. Usually mix my own. Organic soil, peat and worm casings with my own homemade compost. My tomatoes are loving it. For berries,do half and half soil with peat.👍
Thank you so much for doing all this for all of us.
John, I love your amazing channel!!!
The world is going crazy with this virus right now and who knows what's going to happen??? I'm going to be growing my own organic food and not relying on the grocery store.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge of growing organic.
Stay safe everyone.
Psalm 91
~ Blessings ~
Thank you for all the info you give on your video's... You make buying garden stuff much easier...
John, Although I don't give My money to Walmart, I do however value the information I have learned from You today and very much appreciate it! I could easily apply this knowledge to the choices I make when shopping at GreenThumb Nursery and Garden Supply or any local garden store. I have learned so much on Your channel and thank You so much!
Michelle Blackburn ill never shop at walmart again
Have not spent a $1 there in over 8 years...
I don't support Walmart ever. But I too appreciate the lessons from John.
Walmart is a mom and pop shop.. isn't it
Technically speaking.
Really enjoyed this video being a new gardener I found this super helpful. You should do a video with good potting mixes and show the real difference between good and bad organic mixes. Thanks for the reviews.
Oh MAN! I had bought some miracle grow soil and all my healthy plants died. Maybe Mansanto’s doesn’t want our plants to grow so that we can depend on their poisonous crops.
P.S. this whole hour of a video is so worth it for new bees like me. Thank you!
John, as an FYI I bought several bags of the Just Natural organoc potting mix with worm castings to start a bunch of seeds in and it did a bang up job. My only issue was that I found small rocks in every bag which is a cheap trick to boost the weight the bags. In addition, i found a large metal nail in one bag. Not exactly what i was hoping to find. That being said. The plants i started in this soil are doing amazing and big props to the company because when i contacted them about my issue they actually responded and took the compaint to the plant manager and discussed it in a staff meeting. They really do care and eant to make a quality poduct.
Nails are a sign that they use old pallets.
@@charles8060I never thought about that, but it makes sense. Thanks for that info.
I have noticed myself that some Walmarts carry something and other stores don't(WM) I found 5 pound bags of worm castings at the Crockett Tex. store for $4.97 a bag. Bought one and this is the real thing. Smell, texture, color and using a real strong lens there were egg casings throughout. Web prices plus shipping is 4 or 5 times that. Can't beat that John!
I admire the passion for gardening. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the world. Great video!
Hi John, thanks, this is great information. I especially, appreciate the find clearance sale tutorial...simply great!
excellent video! very thorough. i know i've bought bags of dirt, and when i got them home and opened them up they looked very woody and dry.
I think ur very pretty 😍
Basically don’t BUY anything, make your OWN 🤔❤️love your videos John, many thanks 🙏
I’m growing all my plants in coco coir, perlite and vermicompost ❤️
I did what you did for my winter garden. I buy a lot of soil from Wal-Mart .
I almost didn't watch initially but once the bags started to open I was hooked. Very informative and helpful. Long but chock full of useful important info. Thanx much!
I bought some "Earthgro" at Walmart last week. It had enough wood in it to build a log cabin!
They also carry eggs. I used it for indoor plants and about a week I had an army of flies in my house
Thanks for that info Marley. Since I used the Earthgrow I've had an infestation of fungus gnats and whiteflies in my growroom. My seedlings have been decimated!
@@frankaredia toss the bag and try to change out the soil you have potted, and use some insecticidal soap on the leaves to kill the whitefiles. I heard baking soil in the oven is a good way to "sterilize" it from fungus, and is supposed to help get rid the eggs, but I'm not sure if it will compromise the nutrients in it or not as I haven't tried it. But I guess its worth a shot especially if you have no choice but to buy cheap low quality soil.
@@frankaredia LOVE your name, Chauncey!!!!
I have bought that befor I added some fertilizer and coco choir perlite vermiculite some or all.
Thank you John very interesting I will be more choosy when I buy compost or soil
Regarding the OMNI, the company said this: "Thank you for your email. Our OMNI is Source Selected Green Waste based compost. It is native to Arizona and is organic with no chemicals added." Not sure what "Source Selected Green Waste" even means.
Did u ever get an answer to your question?
Christmas is only one day. Gardening is everyday. 😉🖤🖤🖤
I got 5 of the 2.5 l of Dr.Earth. great Dr. End of pallet. 6 each $6. This week they are $6.75. Normal over $17.
LOL I agree, garden stuff always more important!
john thx for all your hard work,do you have patron ,you do alot work with these vids,and we should give you something,if you dont,please set one up for yourself
Your instructional videos are wonderful; I learn so much!
I love your content, seriously top-notch!! With that said I have a couple recommendations that can Improve your videos. These are general tips not specifically for this video. I usually skip your videos if they are longer than 20-30 minutes just because I don't always have that much time. 10-20 minutes is probably perfect especially to get more people watching your videos. You could probably reduce the video length if you cut out any unnecessary rambling or other parts that have a 2-3 pause. Cutting all that out can take a little work but will usually shorten the video quite a bit. Only other recommendation is to try and keep each subtopic to a specific duration of time. The best thing you can do for long video (30 min+) is included timestamps in the description and mention those timestamps at the beginning of the video. Again, thanks for all the great/free content. Keep it up!!
Once again you hit it out of the park with a sterling bit of content that satisfies my love of gardening knowledge. I profoundly thank you!
The reason why I like your chanel you sound so energetic always excided to tell us what you know and why you think its important for us to know so we can have a good nutrition garden thanks again for enjoying your garden so that you want to share with the world
Thank you so much....This video is so helpful to me as a beginner who don't have any idea yet what soil are exactly to be use to start my gardening
John, Thank you for all your videos, you're providing us all with great info and saving us all the hard work. We appreciate it 👍.
I just started watching your videos. I really have learned so much new information. I have been growing vegetables on and off my whole life (and flowers). I am impressed about all the new info. I also find your presentations anything but boring!! I happily subscribed. Excellent detailed information.
John I have a garden soil crush on you! So thorough!!
One thing, that I've found when using various store bought soils, is that they vary radically from bag to bag within the same brand's specific product, so I can't go by previous experience with a specific product. I end up buying various brands, screening them and mixing them together in order to get at least some consistently.
Has he done a video on making your own potting mix? I would like to see one that has actually been tested.
He makes his own soil in the garden tower/tower garden video. He adds around 50 different things, it’s a blast. He also explains each one.
It's 2am and I watched every minute of this amazing video, good info, I need this. Thank you.
The soils they sell are great if you want fungus gnats. They might be ok for use outside. Used some of them inside... house was filled with fungus gnats in a few weeks. Now using all organic. Have a worm farm for compost. Been mixing worm castings and make my own fertilizer from organic alfalfa and kelp and other stuff. Added my compost and natural fertilizers.. took a year... but now no more fungus gnats. After going organic... not one fungus gnat in my house. :) Plus I put a few red wiggler worms in all pots. Turn under dead leaves under the top of soil. It works for me. No more sticky fly strips to catch fungus gnats.
another soil consideration for review. I buy mine at Lowe’s or home depot but amazon has a great selection also. Mushroom Compost
Hi I think you are very pretty 😍
Let's do some more math, John (and maybe you did, and I hadn't seen that part yet.) I like to convert the costs per liter/gallon/foot or whatever the measure is on the bag to cost per cubic yard. The "Just Natural" 2 cubic feet bag that was purchased in the video for $3 works out to a very nice $40/ cubic yard. My local landscape supply yard sells its best organic, non- GMO veggie mix for around $50 a yard. It would take just under 306 bags of Dr. Earth to make a cubic yard. At $6/2.5 litres, that's $1,835 a cubic yard!!! I am sure the Dr. Earth is good stuff, and I realize that most people may not have the option to go get a large quantity (my landscape supply place will let you buy by the 5 gallon bucket if you want) but I'd rather build my own soil than pay that price. The bagged dirt biz must be pretty profitable, except at tend of season!!! Happy gardening all!
Great video. I learned a lot more than I expected to. Very thorough.
Thank you for all of the time, effort and energy you put into your videos!
Ha! I love Walmart Christmas stuff! We can't plant outside in dec in mich so the Walmart Christmas stuff cheers me up a bit!
FYI -- When he says "armory listing" he means "OMRI" listing -- the Organic Materials Review Institute listing
Thank you for clearing that up for me .
I knew what he was saying all along
The way that works for me is in short if worms can live in it than i try it on unessential plants in a pot. If the plant grows well, than i can use it on the garden. I have found much as you have that stuff that wont burn is bioavailable and give the plants what they need. Azomite micronized, biochar, worm castings, humic/fulvic acid, coir for soil amendment and starting seeds, gypsum to break up clay soils and epsom salts for trace minerals.
i usually would mix them al together and add come fetilizer if it seems a bit heavy I ad some peat moss coco choir and/or vermiculite perlite..usually works out.I do that with low end stuff also.
This fall I also bought 20 bales of both kinds of Pro Mix ranging from $3 to $5. I think these products have always had a good rep. and are also Omri listed.
Until I started following you I never read the ingredients on the soil bag....thanks John!
I really appreciate your videos. The information you share is logical and just plain common sense. If it’s good to use you tell us. If not,’you tell us. Thank you
Thank you. We getting ready to start our container garden this season. So I'm looking for the best soil. Thanks again.
If you make it to Pittsburgh this year, it'd be great if you do a story on PittMoss! Peat Moss ought to stay in the land as it sequesters carbon. And PittMoss is supposed to retain 47% more moisture than Peat and provide 13% more aeration. We can use more sound eco-products!
Thank you, you talked about all the issues I needed to know as I begin my raised veggie beds
Very informative video. Thank you very much for the informative review and ideas. Great video.
Very inspiring.
A lot of good points here, especially the one about not knowing the exact contents of the bags. I think it's MUCH better to just buy black dirt by the truck load. Here it's $16 a yard. I can assume the soil is fairly depleted, and amend as needed. To get it home, I use a pickup. You can rent them for $20 a day at Menards, I think. Line the tarp with a large tarp, especially the tailgate area - dirt gets in the crack.
Here, where?
Great video John, really interesting. Thanks for putting it together for us!
Forest products includes the inner wood of a tree mulched up. It breaks down quickly and is considered a cheap ingredient. One of the mixes says pine bark -I would consider that a plus in a potting mix or even as an additive to soil. You do need a source of nitrogen as well.
Thanks for your help. I went to the omri website and searched for the different soils I've used to plant for the first time a garden. It looks like I lucked out and everything is truly organic, omri certified for organic use. I thought I was going to have to yank all the plants out of what I had and find something truly organic but I can leave them where they are thankfully.
Two of my plantings have a lot of sticks and other large items but what I'm going to do is after I grow my cabbage in it I'm going to sift it through hardware cloth and keep it and use it in a raised garden bed and toss out the large pieces.
I was going to do the same thing
John, Very informative video. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge. You did the work so we didn't have to.
Thank you again
Thank you so much. I just started gardening organic everything. I’m pretty new at this and I found your video very helpful. I wish I saw it before I started planting my seeds. LOL
I still don’t know the difference between potting soil and potting mix?
I've purchased the Just Organic potting soil before in the past and there were big chunks of wood, some flying insects and snails inside the bags. The sails were small but not something I want in my soil for my potted plants.
I love the price of Just Natural potting mix, only thing is it has big sticks and rocks in the soil. I always mix it with my compost, peat moss, pearlite, and fertilizers.
Ur very pretty 😍
Thanks!
This was so informative and helpful... thank you for doing this!
Thanks so much for a great video. I love the tip at the end and that you listed where to find the topics in the video. It was a very long video and I was able to jump to the parts I was most interested in. Now I'm ready to go shopping.
What a great topic. Thank you for taking the time to put this video together. Good to know your perspective on how to read bags and your thoughts about the quality of the ingredients!
WOW WOW WOW !!! This was Perfect ! I’ve learned so much !!! Thank YOU !!! I love to learn ! Thank You ! Debra in California!
I use happy frog, mother earth black gold 💚💚💚
This year I have tried different container soils for my patio garden : Magic Dirt, Just Natural Organic Potting Mix, Miracle Grow, and Miracle Grow Performance (comes in a black bag with yellow lettering). So far my plants seem happiest in the Magic Dirt, Just Natural, and Miracle Grow Performance. The Magic Dirt was super clumpy though, I’m surprised its doing so good. It really felt so cruddy coming out of the bag but today theres 2 big corn stalks, zucchini & sunflowers growing great in it.
Hi Molly I think ur very pretty 😍
I'm not sure how much peat goes into compost, but I am a Scotch drinker. Some Scotches have peat smoke infused into them, and distilleries have been doing this for hundreds of years. Even these distilleries who burn peat purely for floating whiskey cannot use the peat fast enough for it to not grow back. It grows faster than it is used.
thank you for all this information my question is: what is the best one for fruit trees thank you
Great video. I try to make most mine but do use two of the kinds you don't care for. I mix them one for nutrition and other for holding the roots.thanks for vjdeo
New here, love your work man, keep it coming, great stuff...
Went to Walmart tonight for a few items.. 12 checkout lanes and only one was open. If I don't want to wait in a big line and use their self checkout lane I want a 5-10% discount for checking myself out. Pretty soon walmart will want customers to help unload the truck and stock the shelves. Walmart blows.
Bro you are awessome. I watch you so much i feel like i know you.. Thanks for taking the time to spread your knowledge. Much appreciated...
Thanks for this holiday gift video. Love that you explained so well. Thanks for repeating Mel's mix at min 50. 1/3 part peat moss, 1/3 part compost, 1/3 part vermiculite plus add the John Kohler additions
Thank you John,that safe me a lot of times on the selection,good information.
Very interesting. Thank you for making such a thoroughly informative video!
John, I'm just starting to watch this video, but "Just Naturals" is a GREAT potting soil. I used it to pot up my hydroponic Kratky method lemon from seed, and had seamless growth this past spring. My tree is still very healthy and all I've used as supplemental fertilizers is Alaska fish emulsion and at the end of the season some citrus and avocado fertilizer. All great products. Enjoy!
I wish CZcams would allow a photo option so I could show you how fat my tree has grown. It's only about 1 1/2yrs from seed.
Unfortunately here on Guam we only have Home Depot and one local hardware store but I did learn something from the video
Ecoscraps makes potting soil that was available early in the season but I cant find it anymore I got one bag of it and it looks really nice. I mixed in a little plant food and perlite and it seems like its gonna be very viable for good plant growth
Something else to watch for is what is known as tph water which is sold to or even paid to dispose of. It is a by product of the refining process of oil. It is water that holds high quantities of hydrogen sulphide as well as volitile organic compounds and is used to feed the microbes and worms of a massive system of ponds then spread on piles of waste......
Definitely don't just read the labels research the companies and the way they produce the compost and mulch.
Google Brooks holdings in Australia and you will see an example. Goodness knows what else they accept and then on well as soil improvements
I'll be honest - I buy my potting soil/compost wherever I can find it, depending on the price, and if I'm willing to try the stuff. That being said, I know one thing that can help - dump the different bags into a wheelbarrow and mix the contents. I actually did that for my one raised bed garden (my March videos even show footage of what I have) - 4 bags of manure, 4 of compost, 4 of potting soil, 4 of garden soil, and 2 of vermiculite - easily 5-600 pounds of stuff. Got some good squash out of it.
Andrew Lockwood Yeah but I’ll much poison did you eat
I don't know. Clearly not enough to kill me, given that I'm sending a reply to you. Odds are, not as much as I might have if I'd eaten squash grown by big businesses, who dump pesticides on theirs, although I'm hearing conflicting reports about that, as apparently most growers don't use any during a certain time-frame prior to harvest, to prevent accidental poisoning. (Only real con I've heard is that commercially grown squash lacks flavor.)
You tell me - how much poison have you ingested from eating things grown in your garden? Are you sure your soil/compost is 100% pesticide/herbicide free? I know I didn't use any on my garden. Did you? Did you brave the pests? I know I did, and I got to enjoy some very lovely ladybugs, who were happy to find a feast of the pests.
I do the same Andrew. If you go to Lowes early in the morning, they have the repaired bags of soil that were ripped the day before. Many of these sell for 50% off with only a little material missing. It's a good way to build your soil up without getting ripped off.
Sure, when ripped stuff is on sale. Lol.
Andrew Lockwood YES! A man after my own heart, hahaha , someone else who partakes in the fun practice of bio-alchemy when it comes to making the perfect garden soil . I’ve ALWAYS enjoyed mixing up concoctions with my arsenal of organic soils/amendments/compost variants /miscellaneous mix-ins , most of the time I come up roses , pun intended , ha ! ... One of the finest quotes /facts about gardening which can be encouraging OR discouraging -but , that’s that “gardening is 100% trial and error “ , and now that I’m currently horticulture student, I noticed one major constant my professor stresses in Just about every lecture, it’s similar to first one and also handy to remember , even Though it can be enraging tehee , and that’s Is : “ there are NO absolutes in horticulture “. Ahhhhh yes, and what a beautiful crapshoot it is ;) no ?
Oh yea- one time I bought a bag of soil at Home Depot, and not only were there peices of plastic- but there was clipped fence wire also!! Now that's nuts!! :(
This is so well done. Thank you.
I agree with you, it is good to know. I recently received a refund from Miracle Grow because of the plastics and other stuff I found in their product.
I wish they would have a clear strip on the side or top of the bag so that you could see what is down inside it.
Thanks for taking the time to do this. Excellent information on what to look for. Bought a bunch of Kellogg Organic Potting soil on clearance but now not sure it was such a deal.
That brand had handfuls of glass chips and cigarette wrapper cellophane 😣
Great advice. Always good to stock-up during the off-season...