Very happy with the ease of ordering. Delivery went exactly as planned. Garden soil looks great and couldn’t be happier.
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Finished screened compost, fully broken down and ready to work into beds. The general purpose choice for building soil that holds water and feeds roots.
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How Much Compost Do I Need?
How Much Compost Do I Need?
One cubic yard of our compost covers about 324 square feet at a 1 inch depth, which is the right depth for topdressing an existing lawn. For garden beds getting a 2 to 3 inch tilled-in layer, plan on one yard covering roughly 108 to 160 square feet, so measure your beds and divide accordingly before ordering.
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About this compost
Finished screened compost, fully broken down and ready to work into beds. The general purpose choice for building soil that holds water and feeds roots.
Very happy with the ease of ordering. Delivery went exactly as planned. Garden soil looks great and couldn’t be happier.
How Much Compost Do I Need?
How Much Compost Do I Need?
One cubic yard of our compost covers about 324 square feet at a 1 inch depth, which is the right depth for topdressing an existing lawn. For garden beds getting a 2 to 3 inch tilled-in layer, plan on one yard covering roughly 108 to 160 square feet, so measure your beds and divide accordingly before ordering.
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How It Works
Getting started is easy — just follow these simple steps
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Choose your quantity
Adjust the quantity to match your project. One cubic yard covers about 100 to 160 square feet at a 2 to 3 inch depth.
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Select a delivery date you'd like for the product to be dropped off at your home
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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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The website to order is super easy to use. Pick a mulch, date/time/driveway location of the delivery and that’s it. A few days later there was a nice mound of mulch in my driveway. Great service - just as promised.
This was the easiest process to purchase mulch! It arrived on time and the driver did an amazing job putting it exactly where I wanted it. I will b...
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This was the easiest process to purchase mulch! It arrived on time and the driver did an amazing job putting it exactly where I wanted it. I will be a return customer for sure.
Complete Your Outdoor Project
Compost pairs well with a topsoil blend when you're building a new bed from scratch, and it works nicely under a layer of mulch that holds moisture in and keeps the compost from drying out too fast. If you're overseeding a lawn this fall or spring, a light compost topdress ahead of seed gives the new grass something better to root into.
Service area
Areas we deliver compost in Lima, Ohio
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
With Lima's silt loam, don't till compost in when the ground is wet, you'll create clods that take a season to break down. Wait until the soil crumbles in your hand rather than balling up, usually a few days after rain in spring or fall. Tilling wet silt loam is one of the most common mistakes we see, and it undoes half the benefit of adding compost in the first place.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
A thick layer of compost is not a shortcut to better soil, it's actually a way to lock up nitrogen and smother grass roots. Stick to 1 inch on lawns and 2 to 3 inches tilled into beds, no deeper. If you have leftover compost, save it for next season rather than piling it on now, since finished compost holds fine in a covered area over winter.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Compost and mulch are not the same job, compost feeds soil while mulch protects the surface, so use both rather than substituting one for the other. Ordering compost in fall to work into beds before winter, then topping with mulch, sets beds up to hit spring already ahead. It also spreads your material budget across two seasons instead of one big spring rush.
Building Better Soil in Lima
Lima sits on silt loam, a soil that holds water well but compacts easily under foot traffic and heavy clay lenses common around the Ottawa Metro Park corridor. Compost breaks that compaction up over time and adds organic matter that silt loam is often short on. With a growing season bracketed by an April 25 last frost and an October 16 first frost, there are two real windows here, spring bed prep before planting and fall top dressing before the ground locks up. Either way, compost worked in now pays off by the time zone 6b's short shoulder seasons hit.
What Finished Compost Is
Finished compost is organic matter that has fully broken down into a dark, crumbly material with an earthy smell. It feeds soil life, improves structure, and helps beds hold water without staying soggy.
How Much to Apply
Work 1 to 2 inches into new beds, or topdress lawns with a quarter to half inch and rake it in. More is not better. Too thick a layer can smother roots instead of feeding them.
When to Apply
Spring and fall are both good windows. Spring applications feed the growing season ahead, and fall applications break down over winter so beds are ready at first thaw.