Ordered the planting mix with an early Saturday delivery. Super easy ordering experience. Dirt was delivered on time and delivery driver was kind enough to let us know I would take up more room than we though so we could pull cars out of the garage. Will be ordering again
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Figure 3 inches of compost or garden mix tilled into existing beds, or 12 to 18 inches of fill for a new raised bed. One cubic yard covers roughly 108 square feet at 3 inches deep.
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Ordered the planting mix with an early Saturday delivery. Super easy ordering experience. Dirt was delivered on time and delivery driver was kind enough to let us know I would take up more room than we though so we could pull cars out of the garage. Will be ordering again
Figure 3 inches of compost or garden mix tilled into existing beds, or 12 to 18 inches of fill for a new raised bed. One cubic yard covers roughly 108 square feet at 3 inches deep.
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Ordered the planting mix with an early Saturday delivery. Super easy ordering experience. Dirt was delivered on time and delivery driver was kind e...
Ordered the planting mix with an early Saturday delivery. Super easy ordering experience. Dirt was delivered on time and delivery driver was kind enough to let us know I would take up more room than we though so we could pull cars out of the garage. Will be ordering again
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Try Our CalculatorFor beds and level fill, measure length and width in feet and decide your depth in inches before you calculate. Raised beds are simplest, just measure the inside dimensions and the fill height. Remember that soil compacts noticeably after the first few waterings, so ordering ten percent extra usually leaves you right where you want to be rather than short.
Most soil orders here pair well with a load of mulch to cap the beds and hold moisture in, plus compost if you are amending rather than filling. Decorative rock finishes the surrounding pathways and keeps sand from tracking into the new planting areas.
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Blend imported soil into your native sandy loam rather than layering it on top. A sharp boundary between two different textures creates what soil scientists call a perched water table, where water hangs up at the interface instead of moving through. Turn the bottom few inches of new soil into the existing ground with a fork or tiller. Roots will cross the transition freely and your drainage stays even throughout the profile.
Wet new soil deeply and repeatedly during the first week. Dry compost and peat based blends can become hydrophobic in Fortuna Foothills air, meaning water beads and runs off instead of soaking in. Several slow soakings rather than one heavy blast will fully rehydrate the material. Once it has taken on water the first time, it behaves normally and holds moisture the way it should for the rest of the season.
Keep a soil probe or even a long screwdriver by the back door. Push it into a bed after watering and see how far it slides before hitting resistance. In amended sandy loam it should move easily eight to twelve inches. If it stops at three, either you are underwatering or you have hit a caliche layer. This thirty second check tells you more about your irrigation than any timer setting.
The native ground across Fortuna Foothills is sandy loam over old Gila River terrace deposits, and while it drains fast enough that you almost never worry about standing water, it holds very little of what plants actually need. Organic matter in desert soils here typically sits under one percent, compared to four or five percent in a productive garden soil, so nutrients and water both move straight past the roots. Add in a caliche layer that shows up at varying depths across the foothills and a pH that runs alkaline, and you have ground that fights most non native plants. Bringing in quality screened topsoil, garden mix, or compost is how homeowners here build a root zone that actually functions, whether for raised beds, new turf, or leveling a low spot in the yard. At 345 feet with a Zone 10a growing season that never really stops, amended soil pays you back nearly year round.
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