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Posted: 4/13/2022 12:37:41 PM EDT
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OST.. considering this as well
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Posted: 4/13/2022 12:43:34 PM EDT
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I put it on my Garden since my ground is mostly clay.
Don't see why it wouldn't grow grass just fine but I usually get a bulk truck load delivered for stuff like that. Probably lower quality, but still as good or better than my clay. |
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Posted: 4/13/2022 12:50:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I put it on my Garden since my ground is mostly clay. Don't see why it wouldn't grow grass just fine but I usually get a bulk truck load delivered for stuff like that. Probably lower quality, but still as good or better than my clay. The issue is I don't need a ton. So 20-30 bags of this is much cheaper for me. |
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Posted: 4/13/2022 12:53:30 PM EDT
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A lot of garden soil is loaded with rough tree compost fragments. You can do it but it will take time for it to break down into good soil.
This is the stuff in the sku # you posted. I just put this around some grass plugs last weekend  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/13/2022 12:53:41 PM EDT
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Will be fine. Buy quality seed such as Barrenbrug. Top dress lightly with mushroom manure. Keep watered.
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Posted: 4/13/2022 1:04:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A lot of garden soil is loaded with rough tree compost fragments. You can do it but it will take time for it to break down into good soil. This is the stuff in the sku # you posted. I just put this around some grass plugs last weekendhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/126641/20220413_125542_jpg-2347711.JPG So would you suggest paying more for lawn soil or would you fill small holes with it? @Banditman |
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Posted: 4/13/2022 1:22:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A lot of garden soil is loaded with rough tree compost fragments. You can do it but it will take time for it to break down into good soil. This is the stuff in the sku # you posted. I just put this around some grass plugs last weekendhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/126641/20220413_125542_jpg-2347711.JPG The stuff I bought just looked like dirt, I got it at local hardware store not HD. |
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Posted: 4/13/2022 1:30:09 PM EDT
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Sand.
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Posted: 4/13/2022 1:34:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sand.  |
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Posted: 4/13/2022 3:20:56 PM EDT
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You can probably get a truckload of topsoil for 200bucks.
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Posted: 4/13/2022 3:39:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The issue is I don't need a ton. So 20-30 bags of this is much cheaper for me. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I put it on my Garden since my ground is mostly clay. Don't see why it wouldn't grow grass just fine but I usually get a bulk truck load delivered for stuff like that. Probably lower quality, but still as good or better than my clay. The issue is I don't need a ton. So 20-30 bags of this is much cheaper for me. Go in with neighbors. Pay driver a 20 to split the load between yards. |
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Posted: 4/13/2022 10:36:38 PM EDT
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Sand is what you want. Soil will compress down again and you’ll have the divot again.
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Posted: 4/14/2022 3:41:00 AM EDT
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Garden soil will lump up when it's dry. Usually it used in a garden where you till it into the other dirt or work it with some peat moss before filling.
Better off with top soil but if it's sifted make sure you save some to refill after it settles from rain. |
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Posted: 4/14/2022 9:09:31 AM EDT
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Go to a real garden center.
Ones with nurseries and that do their own mulching and composting. The one here, its like $20 for a half yard of top soil. Fill dirt is $15 $30 for half yard of compost or garden bed blend |
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Posted: 4/14/2022 12:33:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sand. |
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Posted: 4/30/2022 11:28:31 PM EDT
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The shredded wood garden soil also tends to float away in a heavy rain.
It might not stay in the low spots. |
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Posted: 5/1/2022 2:44:05 AM EDT
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It won't work long term. You'll have to get real dirt\clay and compact and harley rake it to actually fix it.
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Posted: 5/1/2022 4:53:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sand is what you want. Soil will compress down again and you’ll have the divot again. That’s what golf courses use. |
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Posted: 5/1/2022 5:46:44 AM EDT
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Make a mix of 1-part sand and 1-part top soil.
Sand alone won’t be a good place for your grass seeds to take hold. The top soil alone will be full of mulch and may float away / wash out with heavy rain. The sand and topsoil mix will be dense enough to stay put with enough organic material to grow healthy grass. Disclaimer: I’ll be trying this experiment later this week when my topsoil is delivered. Need to get the sand later this morning. Now that I’m typing this out, it may not be 1:1 … I may try 2 or 3 parts dirt to 1 part sand. 
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Posted: 5/2/2022 7:45:34 PM EDT
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1 yard of top soil at my local garden store is $35. Made two trips last week.
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Posted: 5/2/2022 11:23:00 PM EDT
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If you have Bermuda grass use sand. Masonry sand is the best no rocks. The Bermuda will grow in the bare spots. You could add a little topsoil to the top. Topsoil breaks down and you will have another hole if that’s all you use. If you have Zoysia and centipede pretty much the same. You will need to fertilize as well.
Please do not listen to those who say to seed your yard. You live in the South and have warm season grass. Lawn Forum Warm Season Grass |
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Posted: 5/3/2022 11:34:36 AM EDT
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YouTube algorithm got me the other day - I don’t even have a lawn
 HOW TO Level your LAWN FLAT. Topdressing |
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Posted: 5/3/2022 11:40:18 AM EDT
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I mix up topsoil, sand, and composted cow manure -- all from bags -- in a wheelbarrow and use that. I screen the manure first to pull out any chunks.
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Posted: 5/5/2022 6:36:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: YouTube algorithm got me the other day - I don’t even have a lawn  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL3ZSOsllSw Attached File |
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Posted: 5/5/2022 7:05:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: YouTube algorithm got me the other day - I don’t even have a lawn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL3ZSOsllSwThank the Lord that guy is not my neighbor. |
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Posted: 5/5/2022 7:08:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Make a mix of 1-part sand and 1-part top soil. Sand alone won’t be a good place for your grass seeds to take hold. The top soil alone will be full of mulch and may float away / wash out with heavy rain. The sand and topsoil mix will be dense enough to stay put with enough organic material to grow healthy grass. Disclaimer: I’ll be trying this experiment later this week when my topsoil is delivered. Need to get the sand later this morning. Now that I’m typing this out, it may not be 1:1 … I may try 2 or 3 parts dirt to 1 part sand. This is what I always do and it works well. |
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Posted: 5/5/2022 9:23:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Make a mix of 1-part sand and 1-part top soil. Sand alone won't be a good place for your grass seeds to take hold. The top soil alone will be full of mulch and may float away / wash out with heavy rain. The sand and topsoil mix will be dense enough to stay put with enough organic material to grow healthy grass. Disclaimer: I'll be trying this experiment later this week when my topsoil is delivered. Need to get the sand later this morning. Now that I'm typing this out, it may not be 1:1 I may try 2 or 3 parts dirt to 1 part sand. |
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Posted: 5/9/2022 1:06:01 AM EDT
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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. This SKU# 300457596 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 Lowes Last 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 |
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Posted: 5/10/2022 10:06:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You can probably get a truckload of topsoil for 200bucks. I didn't get any last year but maybe 3 years ago I got 1 yard in my pickup which just about filled the bed, and it was $40. That was for "the good stuff" which had some fertilizer mixed into it. Go to wherever people buy bulk mulch. |
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Posted: 5/11/2022 7:18:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You can probably get a truckload of topsoil for 200bucks. $100 delivery fee up to 13 yards and $31 a yard around here The closest place to me sells it’s for $39 a yard. So when I need small amounts I get a yard at a time. If it’s enough dirt for me to take 4 plus trips I just pay for delivery. |
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Posted: 5/12/2022 3:54:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sand is what you want. Soil will compress down again and you’ll have the divot again. This. Fills in voids and grass grows back through it. |
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