This is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com on another field trip.
Today I’m outside my local Lowe’s store and you know the question I get a lot is John
what do I grow my vegetables in?
Well luckily here I grow in Sonoma compost so I have a good source of local organic renewable
compost that’s actually made with the green bin waste or the yard waste and the basically
kitchen scraps of food and vegetable waste in the local community.
So I get that but most people aren’t that lucky.
So you know I encourage you to check with your local nursery or landscaping supply center
that may sell organic compost in bulk.
So that’s actually the next best thing after that then you got the big box store or the
Lowe’s here.
Right now I heard that Lowe’s is having an amazing deal on soil to grow more vegetables
in.
So let’s go inside and check that out.
So we’re here at the nursery in Lowe’s and we’re gonna check the deal that they
have today on the soil for your garden.
So here’s the deal on the soil.
They have two different options or actually many different options.
The main option is this one right here.
This is the low cost option.
Now you know I am not recommending this once again I am not recommending this, I’m just
showing you in case you know you can’t afford anything else cause this makes it really affordable
and inexpensive for you to start growing food and that’s what I’m all about.
That being said I will not personally purchase this myself.
So you know if you don't wanna do what John won’t do, don’t do it yourself, but if
you don’t have a lot of money this is a viable option.
So what this is right here, this is the Miracle Grow Garden Soil.
This is a one cubic foot bag, a one cubic foot bag there and normally this is $4.97
each for one cubic foot.
Right now it’s on sale 4 for $10.
That’s $2.50 for one cubic foot.
That’s good through 3/21.
Let’s take a look at what’s in this garden soil for flowers and vegetables for in ground
use.
Now once again I recommend that this is you know meant to mix with your current native
soil.
Mix with your native soil and plant.
You could cover you know a lot of square footage with these bags.
There’s a little chart right there.
We’re not really gonna go by too much.
And it does say this is not for containers.
So if you do wanna grow in containers you wanna mix this with some native soil.
Let’s see what’s in this, non-organic garden soil.
Let’s see it says this product is originally formulated with organic material including
one or more of the following: peat forest products, aged rice hauls or compost, magnum
peat moss manure, in florida cow manure a wetting agent , fertilizer see below.
In California is product is formulated with composted forest products, peat moss manure
wetting agent, fertilizer see below.
Anyways, it tells you what’s in there.
I personally once again wouldn’t put this in my garden but 2.50 you know per cubic foot
is a pretty good deal.
So next what I might use is this stuff.
This is Organic Miracle Choice by Miracle Grow Garden Soil.
This one is $6.97 per 1.5 cubic foot.
The organic garden soil once again.
Let’s take a look whats in this one.
So this one was created for the organic gardener.
A rich blend of premium sphagnum peat moss, compost and natural fertilizers allows you
to grow beautiful flowers and bountiful vegetables organically.
So once again you know this is not for containers, you wanna mix this with your native soils.
This I might use if I didn’t have compost you know a good supply of compost near me
and once again you know check with a local nursery or landscape supply company to see
if you could buy compost organic compost in bulk and let’s take a look at the ingredients
in here.
So the organic choice garden soil is regionally formulated with an organic material including
forest products, peat, hummus or compost, magnum peat moss, composted manure, in florida
cow manure, and poultry litter.
So in California and Texas, regionally formulated from forest products, composts, sphagnum peat,
composted manure and poultry litter.
So basically this one’s a little bit different and the fact that it probably doesn't contain
organic fertilizers such as the Miracle Grow that they probably add to the regular soil.
So once again you know this I might use if I didn’t have compost, that being said I’m
not gonna use it.
You know the 4 for $10 is actually half off already for the organic stuff the $6.97 is
just the normal price the deal gets better than that.
So let’s show you why the deal gets better than that.
So this is why it gets even better, you save $25 off instantly on all Scotts Miracle Grow
family products.
It says save $25 instantly.
Discount taken at register when you spend $100 or more on the purchase of any combination
of listed brands.
This is actually valid 3/16/2011 to 3/28/2011.
So what that means is if you buy 40 bags of the one cubic foot non-organics you know soil
actually you get $25 off so that saves you 25%.
You’re gonna get basically 40 bags for $75 plus tax.
That’s a really good deal.
Now if you want the organic stuff then you’re gonna buy out 15 bags at that price and then
you’re gonna get $25 so thats gonna be $75 for 15 bags.
So that works out to $5.30 a bag instead of $6.97 a bag.
So definitely a good deal.
So just like my latest video at Walmart that you know got a couple people riled up, I’m
not necessarily advocating shopping at Walmart I’m just letting you know what’s available
in case you don’t wanna spend more money or do mail order buy the good sources of seeds
that I recommend and of course I always recommend you buy those and I always recommend you get
you know the best and you know source of soil.
Hopefully organic soil but in this case if you can’t get anything else you know Lowe’s
is many places in the country and you know they’re offering this special deal right
now so I would encourage you to get some garden soil if you need it cause this is probably
a really good deal that you’re not gonna see you know again.
So one last deal here at Lowe’s before I go and they got these annuals, 6 pack annuals
on sale right now for 88 cents.
So you know they have things like violas and pansies and even you know a whole bunch of
marigolds.
There’s a whole rack of marigolds over there and you know these are edible flowers.
So I would definitely let these grow a while and start to harvest some of the flower petals
to eat in your salads.
Definitely good to get some more antioxidants and they got some really cool and vibrant
colors.
And check out these pansies.
And actually I like the violas more than the pansies cause I found that violas actually
last longer than the pansies.
Pansies, when it gets too hot the violas last through the summer for me the pansies do not
and the marigolds actually last till it gets you know really cold once again.
So once again these deals at Lowe’s are probably for a limited time, probably set
to expire around the 21st or something like that and once again this video is to show
you what is available and share with you the deals if you’re a frugal gardener like I
am but nonetheless I’m not getting the soil here.
I have a good source of organic compost and I encourage you to seek out and try to find
in your local area organic compost.
So the first thing is call your city, call your garbage company, see if they do food
scrap or other ways of recycling and make compost that they will sell to you at free
or low cost.
While many municipalities here in California do I don’t know about other parts of the
country that aren’t too progressive.
Anyways besides that then call your local nursery or landscape supply company and see
if you could buy organic compost by the truckload or by the cubic yard.
It’s often much cheaper or less expensive to do it that way than to buy them by the
bag.
If you can’t do any of those then I would recommend an organic compost from something
like Lowe’s.
Once again right now it’s probably one of the best prices you’ll see with the extra
25% off if you buy $100 worth and that stuff could save so you could buy it now and it
could sit on the side of your house until when you’re planning for the spring which
is coming up really wait, isn’t it spring already?
Anyways it’s coming up real soon or gonna be here but you might have to wait a little
bit depending on where in the country you live.
I mean it is warming up here the tomato starts, pepper starts, cucumber starts and I think
it’s still just a little bit too early for that stuff.
So buy your soil if you don’t have it.
Once again that garden soil is to be mixed with your native soil.
Don’t use it straight up in pods you know it might be too strong.
I don’t recommend that.
So once again what John would do is not buy any of this stuff but get some stuff locally
but if you can’t like if you live out in the middle of North Dakota then go to your
local Lowe’s cause it might be the best you could do.
Once again do the best you can and start growing.
That’s the number one most important thing, start growing you some food for yourself whether
you gotta buy your garden soil at Lowe’s.
Hopefully you get the organic stuff not the non-organic stuff and if you gotta buy your
seeds at Walmart you know whatever you gotta do to your food because that’s the biggest
thing, the biggest one thing you can do to make a definitely positive impact in your
life in your health and in the health of your planet.
So once again this is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com.
We’ll see you next time and keep on growing.