Where To Go For The Best Price Topsoil?

wanna-save-more

Hello fellow gardeners:D

I'm here again to pick your brains!

I need to cover an area 18ft x 8ft x 6inches with topsoil
Where would be the best place to go?
and what price would i be expecting to pay?

Thanks for your help
Oh..... i'm in the gloucestershire area xx

wanna-save-more

Anyone??
Please xx

Lotus-eater

What are you using the topsoil for?

brogusblue

Have a look at turf dealers they normally sell in a tonne bags or wickes, garden centres or even ebay you should pay around £40- £60 per bag

If you need it this weekend the b&q have i think its 4/5 bags for £10 but it would need a fair few bags to cover the area.

Dave101t

im putting in a raised bed this week and im just going to use cheapest compost i can find. its all of a muchness. (im ready to be corrected)

tim_n

hehe dave, very much true - I'm sure you know someone is about to correct you...

Meantime!

Depends what you want to grow in the 'compost'. The cheapest way is to fill your beds with manure and dig it in to the soil beneath. That's what I did. I successfully grew a good crop of sweetcorn, squashes & courgettes, beans, tomatoes, rhubarb, runner beans etc. Generally manure is free, you find it near places that have horses and some places even bag it up for you.

Year after, you'll need to top it up with something else.

Otherwise contact your local council, sometimes they do bulk deliveries - one of our places does compost for about £60 a half lorry load.

Kaz2904

Our local tip sells compost and it's supposed to be cheaper than the shops if that helps?
If not, how about freecycle?

peter_the_piper

Please bear in mind that topsoil comes in 2 grades at least, one--the cheapest is just soil complete with weeds etc. You can get weed free treated topsoil which groundsman use but its a lot more expensive. You pays your money and takes your choice.