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Scotia, New York's Landscape Supply Company

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Choose your product

Make sure you adjust the quantity to your home's needs. You can use our calculator to estimate how much you'll need.

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Sit back, wait, and let us work our magic to make sure the highest quality product is delivered to your driveway.

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Complete Your Scotia Outdoor Project

We’ve got you covered with our full line of landscape supply products, from premium mulch and quality soil to decorative stone, helping you create a cohesive, professional landscape that enhances your property for years to come.

Mulch Mound Pro Tip

Scotia's village backyards reward vertical growing, and raised beds are the easiest way to get there. Build them at least twelve inches deep and fill with roughly sixty percent screened topsoil, thirty percent compost, and ten percent coarse sand so the mix drains but still holds water in July. Top off with an inch of fresh compost each spring, because bed soil settles two to three inches over a single season.

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Mulch Mound Pro Tip

Scotia's mature street trees drop a dense shade over many village front yards, and turf struggles there no matter how much seed you throw at it. Rather than reseeding the same bare ring every spring, convert the area under the canopy into a mulched bed with shade tolerant plants such as hosta, epimedium, and wild ginger. Keep mulch at two inches over the root zone and you eliminate the annual battle.

Mulch Mound Pro Tip

Watering habits matter in Scotia because the sandy loam here drains quickly and shallow sprinkling trains roots to stay near the surface. Set an empty tuna can under the sprinkler and run until it collects one inch, usually 30 to 45 minutes. Once weekly at that depth beats daily light watering every time, especially through the dry stretch that often runs from mid July into September.

Frequently Asked Questions

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What soil mix should I order for new raised beds?

A garden mix of roughly 60 percent screened topsoil, 30 percent compost, and 10 percent coarse sand suits Scotia raised beds well. A four by eight foot bed twelve inches deep takes about 1.2 cubic yards. Order slightly extra, because fresh mix settles two to three inches over the first growing season.

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Can I get material delivered to a backyard through a narrow village lot?

Trucks cannot usually reach backyards on tight Scotia lots, so we stage the pile on the driveway or a tarp at the curb. From there a wheelbarrow moves about three cubic feet per trip, meaning roughly nine trips per yard. Plan for a helper, or ask us about splitting the load into two smaller staged deliveries.

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Is compost or mulch better for a vegetable garden?

Use both, in layers. Work one to two inches of compost into the top six inches at planting to feed the soil, then top with an inch of straw or leaf mulch to hold moisture and block weeds. Avoid thick bark mulch in vegetable beds, since it ties up nitrogen as it breaks down at the soil surface.

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Scotia sits across the Mohawk from Schenectady, a walkable village of brick streets, Collins Park, and homes dating back a century or more. Small backyards mean gardeners here go vertical and intensive, filling raised beds and container plantings rather than sprawling borders. Our garden soil blends and half yard mulch orders suit that scale perfectly. Wheelbarrow access is often the plan, so we place piles as close to the gate as the truck can reach.

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