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Top Soil - Beachboy - 07-09-2007
who knows of the best deal($) for a truck load of top soil? I'd also like a price for that truck load of soil too? It's time I start thinking about a small area for planting grass for the kids & wifey..
RE: Top Soil - pslamont - 07-09-2007
Are you talking a BIG TRUCK of soil or a pick-up truck of soil? frankly, you can plant grass in fine sand from the rock quarry and avoid tons of weed issues. If it is only a pick-up truck load let me know..... I have dirt!
Just another day in P A R A D I S E !!
RE: Top Soil - Rob Tucker - 07-09-2007
I have a play yard at my home where the grass is growing well on a red cinder base. The cider base makes for a nice soft landing too. In my opinion top soil or dirt is mostly a way to generate mud. I might consider a dirt/cinder mix for some raised bed vegetable growing.
RE: Top Soil - Beachboy - 07-09-2007
right now between my sliding glass door off of kitchen eating area, to my catchment tank is just where I want to plant grass. Currently is is has back filled rocks with a truck load of gravel on top of that.
I'd like to go the easiest way possible, and you all have offered up good solutions to my grass growing problems.
Oh yeah, I was thinking of a Big Truck of soil, or perhaps a pickup truck just might do the trick?!
Now, does anybody have their own "Agent Orange solution" to kill off the weed cycle from growing over and over?
Do you folks suggest turf or seed when I get to planting stage?
Edited by - beachboy on 07/09/2007 10:41:52
RE: Top Soil - Les C - 07-09-2007
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Fine salty sand is also available from Waialoa dredging (the pile in Ho'olulu Co. Pk., just north of the civic center in Hilo) got sand for 'Lucky duck' there yesterday
Carey, didn't you raise the question about this stuff being contaminated by arsenic from the Canec production upriver? Did you find out anymore about that possibility? Or was that another pile of dredging?
Edited by - Les C on 07/09/2007 13:07:54
RE: Top Soil - Hotzcatz - 07-20-2007
Beachboy, the easiest way to grow grasses that will survive in your neighborhood is to find some that are thriving and take starts from those. If you have a neighbor with enthusiastically growing grass, perhaps they will let you "weed" around some of their plants in exchange for the grass pulled up.
Awhile back I saw a newspaper article about the pile of dirt/sand/seaweed which had been dredged out of Hilo harbor and they said it had been tested and was safe for folks to come and take it for use in their yards. It was in the Tribune Herald about four or five weeks ago, I think it was.