Has anyone been buying or pricing MG Potting Mix lately?
I'm curious what a 2 cu. ft. bag is going for in other parts of the country.
I just bought some at $9.48 + tax at a local WalMart. I think it is priced between $12 - $14 at most retailers here. (again, that's the potting MIX...not SOIL)
14 new hanging baskets of fuchsias, here I come! Not to mention I'll be repotting some brugs.
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
Patrick, it's the same here in the Northeast - between $12 and $14 at the local nurseries, for 2cu ft. I haven't checked Walmart recently, but the last time I was there I think it was going for around $9. So, it's pretty much the same everywhere.
I purchase potting mix from a local nursery owned by a guy from our church. He makes his own potting mix that he uses for starting his plants, he sells great big bags for $3 a bag and its wonderful stuff. By the middle of the summer he's sold it all and you have to wait until the following Spring to buy more. Have you checked around for a local nursery that might do the same thing? This is a family run business, the son now operates the nursery and the Dad starts plants and makes potting soil, etc. The plants they start from seed are superior to anything that I've bought at a chain store and cheaper, gallon size plants are 2.50, impatiens, delphinums, geraniums, vinca, etc. Target sells gallon size pots for about the same but if you don't get them fresh off the truck they get pretty beat up and neglected in just a few days with our weather.
Michele
Jacksonville, Fl
Zone 9a
Nature, in order to be commanded must be obeyed. Sir Francis Bacon
Michele
Please let me know where to get this potting soil! Wondering if it is Trad's. I need alot soon when I am able to get started again in back yard
I placed this same thread in our sister site, Hummingbird Forum. Nancy Newfield spoke of how the soaring fuel costs are expected to negatively impact the nursery industry and the increased prices we'll probably be looking at soon. Consider stocking up?
Here's a link to that thread...Nancy's post is about the 4th one added.
Michele
I had a feeling that would be it!!! I have spent money there!!! I love the DAD! he's just too cool. At the end of my street was Wynn's Nursery and Raleigh Wynn was an expert on plants-but after he died, Kay kept it up for awhile and now it is up for sale -just the land tho. I will definitely get some of the potting mix! Actually alot!!!!!!! You do have a Cuba now by the way!!!!
Hey guys, I go to my local LOWE'S first thing on Monday morning and buy their broken bags at a very reduced rate - never more than half price (depending on the damage to the bag). I buy potting soil, gardening mix for my new beds and mulch - it has been a lifesaver for me this year.
Carrie,
That's a really good suggestion, I had forgotten about that. The WalMart here, before I stopped shopping at WalMart, changed their policy and refused to sell the broken bags!
Michele
Jacksonville, Fl
Zone 9a
Nature, in order to be commanded must be obeyed. Sir Francis Bacon
Carrie...you must have some really clumsy folks at your Lowe's if they always have broken bags (unless Maxine is giving them a helping hand?!). I've scouted out my Lowe's, Home Depot & Wal-Mart....didn't spot a single broken bag.
It poured rain here this afternoon, started just as I headed out to check out a sale on concrete "art" items, then on over to the garden center at Fred Meyer. The temp has dropped considerably & we'll be in the 30's overnight. Hopefully just the upper 30's, cuz Betty Marshall is sitting out in the backyard.
I just heard that the Dallas area was hit by a severe thunderstorm...hope your yard didn't get wiped out with all the hail, etc?!
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
We were very fortunate - we got none of the bad stuff, just rain (which we needed badly). Sun was out yesterday off and on and today is starting out to be an absolutely gorgeous spring day.
Patrick, Lowe's usually has the broken bags after a big week-end - that is why I specified EARLY on Monday morning. I have to get there before the other little ole ladies do. And I am shocked - would Maxine EVER do anything underhanded?
Oooooh...so it's the customers who are breaking the bag! Now why doesn't that surprise me?! People have no respect. There MUST be an appropriate Maxine cartoon for that.
Woohoo...the sun is starting to come out...I'm outtie!
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
Carrie--was Patrick suggesting you would be underhanded??? lol! Shame on you Patrick! Most of the places here in Jax do not give you a discount on the broken bags---they have them sent back for refund. I am so glad Michele posted about Trad's---GREAT nursery here---y'all come down!!! There is another good nursery - Gecko gardens that has some rare plants at time and around June they start carrying the Heliconias---another addiction! I think you have been there Michele. Sometimes pricey but some great deals too
Carrie and Linda,
You are my witnesses that we never get any good deals here in Jax. My girlfriend in Dallas gets wonderful deals on her plants, potting soil, and home improvement items all the time and doesn't believe me that none of the stores here will do discounts! By the way, I'm headed to Dallas on Wednesday, hubbie is going to water my garden, he's dependable but I'm a little nervous about it. Hopefully, we will have rain while I'm gone.
Michele
Jacksonville, Fl
Zone 9a
Nature, in order to be commanded must be obeyed. Sir Francis Bacon
Michele
I have been doing the rain dance for weeks!!!
to no avail--(maybe the reason I have all these problems!!!) (doing better tho!) If we do not get rain soon I will have a MAJOR problem! my water bill alone was over 150.00 this month !! Yikes
--city water
Linda, me thinks Patrick was doing just that, and thank you for coming to my defense. Oh and BTW, Patrick - Carl picked up another truck load for me today and it isn't even Monday - go figure. Even got fertilizer thrown in this time.
Michele, give me a call while you are in Dallas - maybe you can come out.
As I gaze into the crystal ball, I think I see Maxine in spike heels, tromping around on top of those piled up bags of potting mix....conveniently, just before Carrie comes around the corner with that big ol' pick-em-up truck!
Hee Hee!
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
