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Recs. for buying dirt
DH and his ex-stepdad built a large garden box with landscape timbers over the weekend. We estimate we need about 3 cubic yards of dirt, though looking on line it looks like landscaping folks have a 5 cubic yard minimum. I'm seeing $200 - $250 for that amount of dirt.
I've never bought dirt before, no idea if that is a good price.
Any recs?
Wife, Musician, Fed, WW-er, and Mom of three little kids - not necessarily in that order.
Re: Recs. for buying dirt
Last year when I did my square foot garden and was looking for the component's for "Mel's Mix" (compost, peat moss and vermiculite), I found Southern States in Manassas to be the cheapest (compared with Merrifield, Home Depot and Lowes in the Fairfax area).
A word of warning - we have a large pit in our yard that we have been trying to fill in. We got free fill dirt from Craig's List. Unfortunately, we let them deliver while we weren't home. It was awful. All heavy clay with a TON of rocks. I would NOT recommend the free fill dirt from Craig's List. If someone on CL is offering topsoil, I would consider it but definitely inspect it before letting them dump.
If you are in Arlington County, they have fill dirt and mulch delivered very cheaply but the dirt is probably not suitable for a garden bed. http://www.arlingtonva.us/departments/environmentalservices/swd/EnvironmentalServicesSwdMulchOrders.aspx
Thanks, this is really helpful because it confirmed my suspicion that "free dirt" is probably what you'd use to fill a hole in the yard or something, and not what you'd use in a garden bed. The dirt we found so far is topsoil mixed with compost - so far we see that for $236. I will check out the place in Manassas!
And yes, I need to look into it, but I think Fairfax county also has mulch that is either free or cheap.
Fairfax County has free mulch. You just have to load it yourself. It's out at the Transfer Station on West Ox Road. Bring gloves and shovels or a pitch fork. In the past, we have taken garbage bags and large cardboard boxes and filled them up. (We do not have a truck.)
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes/trash/dispmulch.htm
DH and I still joke because we saw a woman drop her teenage son off with a stack of garbage bags, a milk crate and a shovel. He put the bags inside the milk crate and filled them up then tied them. About 45 minutes later, she came back for him and the bags.
I've gotten the free mulch there and ... it's free, yes, but it was full of clover and poison ivy one year. So - be careful where you place it.
(I can handle the weeds but I had really bad PI for a very long time....)
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