Quoted:Is there any issue with this? My yard has alot of small holes in it. Garden soil is so much cheaper than top soil. Can I fill holes with it? Below is what I'm looking at using.
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OP, how deep are these holes?
Because you don't need to spend a lot of money to fill these.
This here is just fine. $2.38 per bag.
From LowesLast year they had one that was part sand, and that is even better. (It was 1.48 a bag) I can't find that on the website, but if you are wanting to fill holes and/or level spots in the lawn, you want at least PART OF IT to be sand. Because all the organic matter in any bag you buy is going to collapse wiht time. It's going to sink and settle as it gets disintegrated by the forces of nature (any organic matter will do this) while the sand will NOT be subject to this. So you want, ideally, a mix of soil and sand.
Don't go expensive for this.
That bag you linked to has extra stuff in it. The "helps retain moisture" part is an additive you don't need. (Looks like it's peat moss. You absolutely do not need that.)
Buy the cheapest topsoil you can get (within reason. Make sure it doesn't have a bunch of noxious weeds in it. The bagged stuff usually has fewer weed seeds than what you buy by the yard) and mix it with sand, half and half, OR buy it with sand mixed in it.
I'm sorry I can't find what I bought last year to use for customers.
You should be paying 2 bucks a bag or so. Not almost 5.
ETA: You are going to have to do this more than once. I forgot to say this in the original response, so I'm editing.
1- It's going to settle the first year, cuz...it's going to settle.
2-It's going to settle MOAR the second year cuz...the organic components of what you are putting there (it's going to have SOME organic components, even if the bag says it's just soil and sand) are going to get eaten by microbes, and when that happens, it's going to shrink/settle.
So...this is not a one-time hit-it-and-done thing.
NOW THEN...if you have grass you want to grow THROUGH this stuff you're putting in....that's a whole nuther thing, and you have to do thin layers, so you don't smother the grass.
If I haven't made sense or you have questions, @ me and I will try to help.
~Kitties