[Mike.white]

I'm not sure which Forum to put this under so I thought I'd try here... Mostly I'm looking for a source of soil -I'm 99% concrete and my plans this year means I'll need a fair bit - and to buy it's so expensive!

I'm in Moreton in Wirral so any replies from that area would be particularly welcome... but any suggestions would help too!

Thanks!

[sunshineband]

I have spent ages agonising over whether to spend money or whether to buy stuff dug up from abuilding site, and have gone for buying in, as I couldn't face the inevitable rubbish/hardcore additions. Foudn ane excellently product (which is currently out of stock and only available 'to order' ... Westland sterilised top soil 4 x 25l bags for £10. My daughter & her husband bough some last year and it has been brilliant.

I seem to have bought the last 10 bags available, but needed lots more. Have now ordered from Dandysoils (Cheshire) with free delivery, sold by cubic metre gaint sacks, delivered on a lorry. Think it was about £50.
Delivery the end of the week.

[tam]

Try freecycle might need to shift it yourself but I've seen it advertised before where people are landscaping their gardens  

[shaun]

give dandys a ring,there on sealand road(chester) or darlingtons in heswall

[sunshineband]

Have had the soil from Dandyd delivered -- came on a lorry with a crane so the bags were lifted over the hedge to exactly where I wanted them. It is brilliant!!!

[Knight Family]

but costly i expect

[Christine]

If your local council has a garden waste collection service, then you should be able to get cheapish compost at least from whoever takes the stuff in to handle. Locally that is fairly cheap and the local supplier does a proper job with the composting. So try your local council.

[MoreWhisky]

Luckly my plot is next to the grave yard and the diggers keep offering me some  for nothing.
I think they planning ahead for harvest time. 

[Yabba]

Luckly my plot is next to the grave yard and the diggers keep offering me some  for nothing.
I think they planning ahead for harvest time. 

Complete with blood and bone!!! luck you! :roll:




I'll get me coat :-p

¥

[FCG]

I was going to suggest Dandy's. They are your best port of call.

[Gwiz]

Luckly my plot is next to the grave yard and the diggers keep offering me some  for nothing.
I think they planning ahead for harvest time. 

Complete with blood and bone!!! luck you! :roll:




I'll get me coat :-p

¥

Soil - where do you get Yours?

I opened my back door, and there was a garden full of the stuff.

Sorry, Mike.White, I just couldn't help myself...
I'll get me coat as well

[David.]

Chop paths out of your plot and backfill with cr*p from skips, etc.

This should give you more topsoil for raised beds, etc., than any amount of compost you can create.

[Swing Swang]

How about doing a mailshot, or even knocking on the doors of all the houses within wheelbarrow distance? Taking a neighbour's topsoil when they build a patio will save them disposing of it, although you'll have to wait and take it when they want to get rid of it.

My neighbour approached me last week, and his son is putting the soil exactly where I want it. I'm not even allowed to bung him some dosh, because I'm doing him a favour!

Things like this don't usually happen to me!

SS

[themoog]

I bought in from Dandy's for the deep raised beds (just over the border from you). As it was for veg I wanted a decent start and it's been good value. 5 years on, just adding a little compost/manure each autumn and feeding in summer it's in great condition.