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I am having trouble finding "dirt" for my container garden. I am planting round two of my patio garden and everything I buy from Lowes and Home Depot is very chunky with mulch (which is why I need to plant round two). It did fine for awhile but the heat has caused havoc. They are container plants and the water runs right through the mulchy dirt, so unless I have a watering system or stand over them all day with a dripping hose they can't make it through the day without distress. Up North we had places with big piles of fill dirt that you could just go pick up. Is there any place like that down here? Or, can anyone recommend a place that I can buy bags of plain old top soil?
I am having trouble finding "dirt" for my container garden. I am planting round two of my patio garden and everything I buy from Lowes and Home Depot is very chunky with mulch (which is why I need to plant round two). It did fine for awhile but the heat has caused havoc. They are container plants and the water runs right through the mulchy dirt, so unless I have a watering system or stand over them all day with a dripping hose they can't make it through the day without distress. Up North we had places with big piles of fill dirt that you could just go pick up. Is there any place like that down here? Or, can anyone recommend a place that I can buy bags of plain old top soil?
If you have the room, I would skip the dirt and mix your own. In my container garden, I am using this recipe: 1/3 peat moss, 1/3 vermiculite (cheaper purchased at farm store) and 1/3 mix of 4-5 different kinds of manure. I use cow, chicken, mushroom and evergreen. I tried this for the first time this year and I will never go back! I am swimming in tomatoes.
Hey neecie - If you want to ride a little, True Blue nursery in Pawleys has bagged top soil that's pretty decent. He's got several varieties, but tell 'em you want the cheap stuff. It's worked well for us. Heading South, it will be on your left, a few blocks after you pass Pawleys Island Outdoors.
There's also a bulk dirt/stone place just as you leave Pawleys, heading to Georgetown. They're on the right, not far after Founders golf course. They are primarily bulk delivery, but I imagine you can talk 'em into selling you a box full. Sorry don't know their name and don't have a phone #.
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@ thaxill - at $2 per gallon it would either have to grow gold bullion instead of tomatoes or I would have to be able to run my van on it. But thanks for the offer.
Mary Ann, thanks for the tip! I don't have any room right now, I don't have a yard and the deck I am growing my plants on is so filled with plants that it is standing room only. I will definitely keep that in mind for the future.
PD thanks for the info. I figured you would know a place, in fact I was just gonna send you a direct message but I didn't want to be an itch.
neecewh, you could try some of the housing developments being built for some fill dirt, especially those being built on old golf courses. They usually have "better" dirt
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they can't make it through the day without distress. Up North we had places with big piles of fill dirt that you could just go pick up. Is there any place like that down here? Or, can anyone recommend a place that I can buy bags of plain old top soil?
