Best Vegetable Garden Soil You Can Buy at Walmart + What to Look For
Best Vegetable Garden Soil You Can Buy at Walmart + What to Look For
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you all the bagged soil products he purchased at Walmart for $3 (or less) per bag. John will open and show you each soil product and share with you his thoughts and review each one.
In this episode, John will teach you some of the things you will want to be aware of when shopping for any bagged soil products at Walmart or any big box store or even local nursery.
You will discover all the incredible bagged soil deals John scored at Walmart, and you will learn how you can determine if Walmart near you has soil products on sale without leaving your home.
You will learn how to discern a good bagged soil vs a bad one. You will discover why soil labeled “organic” may not be organic as you would like.
You will discover how to tell if a soil has too much-uncomposted wood material in it, and the consequences that it can have in your garden.
You will learn how you can test the soil you purchase to determine if it is a soil you should purchase in larger quantities or not.
You will discover how much large unscreened material is contained in each bagged soil product tested.
Jump to the following parts of this episode:
0:04:26 Deals I found at Walmart
0:07:05 Bagged Soil Products Comparison Starts
0:08:00 EcoScraps Compost Review
0:08:05 The Scam of Organic on Bagged Soil Products
0:16:19 Earthgro Potting Soil Review
0:21:00 Why your vegetable may turn yellow when planted in bagged soil
0:21:39 Magic Dirt Premium Potting Soil
0:29:18 Miracle-Gro Nature’s Care Organic Potting Mix
0:31:50 How Heavy Should your bagged soil product be?
0:38:50 Just Natural Organic Container Potting Mix
0:46:21 OMNI Seed Cover and Planting Compost
0:49:41 Greensmix Sphagnum Peat Moss
0:54:13 Summary and My Favorite Bagged Soil Products
0:57:22 My suggestions to Bagged Soil Producers
1:00:49 How to find clearance deals on soil products at Walmart from home
After watching this episode, you will learn the best-bagged soil product at Walmart that I found. You will also learn how to determine if a bagged soil product is good or not.
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Filling Your Raised Bed with Soil from Lowes
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This is just superb, I’ve been looking for "how to make the best soil for a vegetable garden" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across – Paylezobath Celebrated Process – (should be on google have a look )?
It is a good exclusive guide for learning organic gardening secrets to boost your produce minus the headache. Ive heard some interesting things about it and my buddy got amazing results with it.
Egg plant cabbage garden
ty John, I am 69 and starting a raised bed garden,,, u helped me out tremendously
I use happy frog, mother earth black gold 💚💚💚
You looked like you had to cough for so long at the beginning.
Apologies for multiple comments, I do save all my plastic soil/manure bags and use them to kill certain weed patches, or fill with perennial weeds to throw in trash, or for dog poo. Just thought you might encourage others to re-use those large plastic bags!
Why is wood bad? I’ve seen other videos where people actually want me to add wood to the bottom of my raised beds.
I think I saw a finger bone in there! LOL
In Maui, Hawai’i must be more than $10 each
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Can i place expired vitamin supplements in compost or fertilizer?
I always enjoy your videos… Christmas is about Jesus…not decorations so much….
Just wonderful, I have been researching "difference between topsoil and garden soil" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about – Paylezobath Celebrated Process – (do a google search )?
It is a smashing exclusive guide for learning organic gardening secrets to boost your produce without the normal expense. Ive heard some amazing things about it and my mate got cool results with it.
I’m looking at the raised beds behind you, and I would like to know what cement "brick" you used? Where did you get it? How did you stick them together?
Dairy waste is not cow manure. It is the waste water from processing dairy products.
Don’t shop at Walmart. Get your garden soil from a local composting source. Try not to use peat moss, it’s unsustainable.
This has been a blessings to me. Many, many thanks,God bless you richly.
I spy some metallic reflective material on left side of screen….is that the metallized insulation wrap? What is the purpose? Up here in the North we need all the help we can get for increasing heat. Feel free to stop by if you ever get this far North probably too cold for you!)
Thank you for all of the time, effort and energy you put into your videos!
i think we could be friends but we gotta fight first hmu
How does one sterilize the compost soil?? Is there a video by u on that?
This was great, thanks, been searching for "how to prepare soil for planting in pots" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about – Fonillian Uncomplex Future – (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now )?
The Walmart near me in Branson West has Pro-Mix Moisture Potting Mix. It’s my go to for quality soil. Only $12.95 for 2 cubic feet. I also ass 15-30% perlite. The exact amount depends on whether I am growing trees or produce. If I want to go super cheap I get Kellogg Raised Bed and Potting Mix and add the same amount of perlite. Kellogg is around 8 dollars here for around 2 cubic feet give or take.
You were super duper througough, thank you so much for that
What is "reed sedge grass" –? Is it related to that horribly invasive weed Nutsedge? I have used some bagged "compost" which had reed sedge grass…and now have an infestation (3 or 4 yrs now) of Nutsedge. That stuff is horrid! I keep digging it out (before it sets seed) and it keeps coming back! We are up here in the frozen North (zone 3b/4a) so this stuff is not killed by 9 months of Old Man (Woman? Bi?) Winter either!
Good deal . Now just get them good ass kush seeds and some gorilla glue seeds planted .
My concern is the use of "municipal"’ or compost materials made from collection of peoples yard debris, and food scraps. People put ALL KINDS of stuff in their bins! Not everyone follows organic practices in gardening, so yard debris can contain all the bad chemicals that we are trying to stay away from. Same with food scraps- it would follow that a good amount of the scraps are from conventionally grown foods that were treated with chemicals. Then on to the manure- how can a product be OMRI certified, and contain manure that came from conventionally grown animal by products? I like the idea of using yard waste and food scraps for something, but I don’t want to grow my food in it!
Thank you for sharing!
Not sure about coconut coir….tried Burpee Seed Starting mix (coir-based) and had awful fungus gnat infestation (never had that b4). Wish there were ratings for coconut coir!!
Enjoyed!
My fav video when I want to fall asleep…Listening g to John talk about soil is so calming…"Right" 😉😎
Best u can buy at walmart is 1 bale of peat , 1 bag of perlite 1 bag of lime add one cup of lime to the bale of peat mix and wet . go find some Dr Earth Homegrown or Espoma tomato or garden tone and add to 2 tablespoons per gallon of soil
I’m sorry so witch is best recommend soil?
When looking for a organic soil:
1. Dont instantly think organic means good/healthy
2. Look for something like *OMRI listed for organic use* on the bag. This means its an organic certified material for use to produce organic food ONLY then can you really call ur food organic.
3. The OMRI listed – Organic Material Review Institute – has products that are allowed and not allowed by the NOP which is the national organic program. Things like sewage sludge or biosolids are not allowed by under OMRI or the organic program
4. If ur bag just says organic it can contain it may contain sewage sludge and biosolids.
5. In the ingredients it could have compost listed, this could be good or bad. Compost could mean composted sewage sludge or anything like it. If they dont specify what the compost is made of, that could be a bad sign. A good example of a specification of compost is yard trimmings and food scrapes.
6. Have a screen to break down big chunks of soil and to catch debre like plastic, glass or wood.
7. Smell the soil.It should just smell like dirt.
8. Do a pot test.
9. Recommeded-make a soil mixture
Soil would buy again: EcoScrapes, Magic dirt. Would mix 1 bag of the EcoScrapes and 1 bag of the Magic Dirt. Or the Pea moss and Virmiculite.
I try not to buy from Wal-Mart. I like making my own compost & buying from our local growing centers. 💚💚💚
I just purchased a Bag of Kellogg’s Amend (yellow/green bag) garden soil to mix and it is OMRI listed but the smell is dank and chemically? IDK ,but I poured the bag in a wheel barrel and leaving it out overnight to see how it is tomorrow. I’ve never smelled anything like it in a store brought bag. EDIT !!! I’m taking the Kelloggs bags back (Amend and Garden soil 3CFT) because it is made with BIOSOLIDS SEWER SLUDGE FROM LOS ANGELES…. I just read this link and will never buy it or the other brands that use processed SHIT for my family garden ever again… I sift all the cheapo bags of garden soil/top soil to separate the big tree and wood pieces out of every bag I buy and save those for mulch, but I have found glass, painted wood chips, plastic and even rusty nails in some of them smh. I make my own potting/container mix using peat moss, compost, garden/topsoil, sand and worm castings. The Omni compost you checked out works good for me but I too was curious about its contents because I didn’t want any cow/steer manure in it (because of pesticides used in Hay or straw that the animals poop) and they said they use only plant based ingredients. Thanks a ton for your dedication and sharing your knowledge and skills and for helping noobs like me make progress. You rock dude!
Being a lover of the full explanation, John, and this video, gets an A+. Thanks for taking the time, sir!
Do you eat meat?
Can you find worm eggs on compost bought on Walmart?
Indian river organic is amazing .
John, Thank you for all your videos, you’re providing us all with great info and saving us all the hard work. We appreciate it 👍.
I bought garden soil that I used as mulch because it was ALL wood. Very expensive mulch!
Can you use pine pellets instead of peat moss?
You rock DUDE!
Thanks again for this John. Some of the cheap soil i boight had weeds sprouted within the bag! Other times im sure they were loaded withfungus gnats :-(. Since gbe gnat infestation i stick to sealed bags of peat moss pearlite washed sand rock phosphate and make my own…other than that pro mix starter mox succulent or specific soils for particular plants such as african violets…haventhad them since the fungus gnat infestation killed most of my house plants…when in doubt i have baked soil in oven or poured boiling water over to kill weed seeds & insect eggs
Thanks for taking the time to do this. Excellent information on what to look for. Bought a bunch of Kellogg Organic Potting soil on clearance but now not sure it was such a deal.
Where is the best place in Arizona tp buy bulk soil?
Jump to the following parts of this episode:
0:04:26 Deals I found at Walmart
0:07:05 Bagged Soil Products Comparison Starts
0:08:00 EcoScraps Compost Review
0:08:05 The Scam of Organic on Bagged Soil Products
0:16:19 Earthgro Potting Soil Review
0:21:00 Why your vegetable may turn yellow when planted in bagged soil
0:21:39 Magic Dirt Premium Potting Soil
0:29:18 Miracle-Gro Nature’s Care Organic Potting Mix
0:31:50 How Heavy Should your bagged soil product be?
0:38:50 Just Natural Organic Container Potting Mix
0:46:21 OMNI Seed Cover and Planting Compost
0:49:41 Greensmix Sphagnum Peat Moss
0:54:13 Summary and My Favorite Bagged Soil Products
0:57:22 My suggestions to Bagged Soil Producers
1:00:49 How to find clearance deals on soil products at Walmart from home
I need to go to Wal-Mart
Any thoughts on the Kellogg organic soils?
Drinking game….everytime he says "stuff"….or "right"