20 Best Dirt For Vegetable Garden (2023 Updated)

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This soil worked perfectly for my raised bed tomato garden. The soil looked clean and felt to be the right consistency, it wasn’t too clumpy or too dry. So far my plants are thriving. This is a very convenient way to fill my raised beds with good quality soil.

Living in New Jersey our planting season begins in early May. This year I introduced the raised bed mix into my raised garden. ]I have have followed a similar planting pattern for years, and looked for results in comparison to prior years.

The early growth of the vegatables has been impressive. I believe the organic mix gives a lighter feel to the soil, which, when combined with the natural fertilizing qualities of the mix, leands great promise to a bountiful crop.

I am looking forward to July and August for truly enjoyable vegetables.

This soil mix is perfect for raised beds as well as indoor plantings. Since it was still cool out when I got this soil I used it first to transplant several houseplants that were stressed from workout soil and pot bound.

The plants seemed to improve and got healthier looking within days and continue to look great. I have since planted a couple of cold weather vegetable boxes and they also are doing great with this mix.

This potting soil is one of the best I have ever tried. The soil is finely sifted and does not contain large chucks of bark as most potting soil on the market today do. My plants love it and I saw bigger yields using this product.

I will be using this potting soil from now on.

This has easily become my favorite potting soil. It is great for both houseplants and outdoor gardens. It has a high nutrient charge, so you don’t have to worry about feeding immediately after potting plants into media.

I prev used Coast of Maine soil, and it is quite a bit cheaper- but i love this, can see the results, and will continue to repurchase and recommend!.

This is the very best potting soil I have used and I’m 69. It allows roots to grow easily for bigger yields.

Turned into a pot of mud topped with hard dirt-balls! Not what I bargained for when it was the only choice my farm/fleet type store offered when they 86’d “The Other Potting Soil” from their inventory, no reason given, thank you very much! After repotting them in the new soil, in properly sized and drained pots, I put my lg.

Mother-in-Law’s-Tongues (20″) out on the deck under the eaves, like I’ve done many plants for many yrs. When it was about time for the usual 1st regular watering, after the initial re-potting dose, I got one of the surprises of my plant-growing life! Instead of drying out from the top down and turning grayish and between crumbly to powdery to the touch: These 2 pots of soil had settled down.

Expect the box to be beaten in shipping but the soil itself came perfectly. It’s the reliable Espoma you can trust.

How good the soil is for my seeds I am not sure yet as they have not germinated all yet. But it looks good. Thanks for a fast delivery.

I was very impressed by this soil. I normally mix topsoil with compost, potting soil, seaweed and various other ingredients to create my raised bed mix. Living on the rocky coast of Maine, I have to supply the soil if I want to grow anything.

I have looked at the ready-made versions at the big box stores, and they were rubbish. I purchased a few bags of this to top dress beds and was so happy that I just bought more. I can’t do any better and the cost was similar to buying all the ingredients separately.

Also, I just learned that Coast of Maine donates soil to school garden programs, including our own. Great product!.

I have used Coast-of-Maine products for years. This year, I increased my patio-planting two-fold, so I need a good amount of high-quality compost/soil mix and this perfectly fit the bill. Do-It-Best not only had a great price, but they offered FREE ship-to-store which saved me hundred$.

I am ecstatic and will be shopping from them again, and NOT just for Coast-of-Maine products because their store is clean, well organized, and extremely well stocked. PS: I spoke with the local store owner about carrying the Coast-of-Maine line and he said that he will definitely look into it.

He had heard good things about them before, but my enthusiasm was convincing.

Purchased this Coast of Maine soil for my raised beds. Top quality and the best price for the product I could find. Shipping was super quick and it arrived to our local shop quicker than estimated. Highly recommend.

Ruined my tomatoes. Oh, they grew like crazy and had a ton of fruit. But as the tomatoes started to turn red EVERY ONE had blossom rot due to an inadequacy of minerals in the soil. Oh and this company claims they back their product.

This is only true if you keep the receipt and UPC code from the bag. I naturally trusted what I was buying…with a photo of flowers and vegetables…including a tomato on the bag was formulated correctly.

I tossed the bags. Long before the plants started to product tomatoes. This is what the company had to say so do t use it in a raised garden! “ Miracle-Gro All Purpose Garden Soil is designed for in-ground use only.

It is not formulated for use in containers, even large containers such as your watering trough. Soil in containers does not benefit from the natural processes of environmental interaction, such as natural fertilization.

Soil in containers is also prone to compacting, which is why our Potting Mixes use a blend of mediums that are designed to maintain soil aeration even when water has been applied. We do not recommend Miracle-Gro All Purpose Garden Soil for use in containers.

We want you to be confident in our products. For that reason, we offer a product guarantee to our consumers. Simply mail either the original itemized cash register receipt or the UPC barcode removed from each product packaging to the address below and I will promptly issue a refund check.

Emailed proofs of purchase do not qualify as originals. ”.

Bought 4 bags of this “soil”. Read numerous reviews about the debris so wasn’t surprised about the sticks, plastic and was lucky not to find other things. What did surprise me was the infestation of gnats? spiders? mites? small creamy white bugs.

Didn’t really notice them until I had done some planting and disturbed them. The soil was teeming with them so all 4 bags must of been infested. Luckily I used it only in one garden. Now have to try and get rid of them.

Unless you have a sure way of getting rid of these creatures I won’t recommend this product. Quite surprised at the over all poor quality of the “soil” to be associated with Miracle Gro. We assumed that a well-know company would pay better attention to quality.

I must stress that all the bags came from a brand-new skid – it still had the plastic wrap on it when I bought it.

I a have been noticing the quality of potting Soil Mixed for the past 5 years. Night price but low quality. There aren’t much real dirts but mostly finer much or grinned plants, trees and you can name it all.

I live I’m Austin Texas. When using all these grinned trees or barks they are baits for termites in a couple of months. Bring more termites to my property. When you dig up dirts in most ground in Texas, you can expect great amount of clay and limestone kind of dirt.

Not good for gardening at all. Spent quite a bit of money buy Miracles Soil or potting mixed but really I am pretty paying for grind trees and shrub. The big bag cost around $15. So not worthy. Please bring back your good quality of dirts if we have to spend $ on dirts.

Miracle-Gro Raised Bed Soil is amazing! I have had it for 2-weeks and I’m just a short amount of time, I am already seeing a difference with the growth of the plants. I am not sure why I or how it happens so fast but it did.

So, as soon as I received the soil, I removed the soil that was in raised bed and placed the Miracle-Gro brand soil in there. Before, the tomato plant that I have in there was dying and now, it is coming back to life.

I am still learning when it comes to plants but I had no idea that the soil makes such a difference. This bag is 1. 5 CU FT and was very heavy. It brought a lot to cover a small portion of my raised planter bed.

The plant before the Miracle-Gro soil was looking sad, dying and stopped producing. Now that it has the Miracle-Gro soil, it started growing once again, it looks happy, it also has a bunch of tomatoes.

This is going to be the soil that I will purchase from here on out and I plan to replace all of my other plants with the Miracle-Gro soil. I highly recommend this soil to anyone trying to grow their plants.

This review is for the Miracle-Gro Raised Bed Soil, 1. 5 cu. ft. I needed some new soil so I could repot some of my old plant. Yes, I do know that it says to not use this soil for potted plants, but I did it anyway and I have to say my potted plants are thriving with this soil.

This soil is more dense than regular potting soil so just make sure to have a few really good drainage holes on the bottom of the pots, but other than that it does the job just fine for potted plants.

If you’re using it for a raised garden you will most likely need 2 to 4 bags depending on the size of your garden. I like that this is 100% organic soil. I am still feeling out whether our not I will have any pest issues using this soil, because many I have used in the past have seemed to attract flying pests that eat away at my leaves, but only time will tell.

As usual Miracle-Gro has not let me down. I highly recommend this for garden and potting needs and will be buying this again when I need to repot.

I’m so tired of this company. I ordered 3 bags of the “100% organic raised bed potting soil” and keep pulling out glass shards, metal shards and plastic sheet/mesh. How can you call yourself organic? How is this allowed? Are y’all getting your soil from a junk yard and slapping organic onto it? I called the customer service yesterday and the first lady I talked to tried to gaslight me by saying “oh that not in our soil that had to be from the outside of the bag from where it was stored.

” EXCUSE ME??? No ma’am. I’ve been pulling SHARDS and TRASH out of the soil since I started pouring it inside my raised garden bed. Ridiculous. My 2. 5 year old wants to help me garden but at this rate it’s almost a safety hazard.

DO NOT RECOMMEND. will never buy miracle grow ANYTHING, and telling everyone to stay far, far away. Yikes. This picture is glass and metal that came up when I harvested my radishes. Wish I collected everything I’ve ever picked out to show how abundant TRASH is in their “organic” soil.

This Performance Organics®️ all purpose container mix from Miracle-Gro®️ is some seriously good stuff. I’m using it for my tomato plants, perrinials and even my herbs and the results so far are downright amazing! This potting soil easily yields up to 2 times more bounty than any other potting soil I’ve used.

It’s already blended with aged compost which is so convenient. And it provides plants enough nutrition for up to 3 months which is perfect for me and my busy schedule. There’s easy to follow instructions for transplanting and seeding right on the back of the bag.

And there’s even lighting, watering and repotting directions. Plus I absolutely love that this product is made from only organic and natural ingredients! It makes me feel so much better and safer about eating my tomatoes and herbs.

And this all purpose container mix fits perfectly with my green lifestyle. I truly couldn’t be happier or more impressed with this product! Highly recommended!!.

I’ve always had good results when planting with Scott’s miracle grow, in fact the best results. Just follow instructions and your climate guides for planting. There are some generic brands out there, I’ve had best results with spending that little extra on Scott’s.

Lots of variety mixes available for vegetables, flowers, and other specific gardening needs. I certainly wouldn’t sow my poppies into anything that’s not mixed with Scott’s planting soil. Highly recommend.

Of course starting your own composting pile at home is best for the environment, still doesn’t hurt to mix in a little scotts.

I have a very extensive collection of plants with many being cacti and succulents. I take a lot of pride in my plants and want to give them the best soil. Miracle grow soil is the best that you can buy that is premixed.

It’s perfect for holding just the right amount of moisture for the right amount of time. Cacti and succulents like water but they like big drinks every do often and that’s it. Then they need to be dry.

They don’t do well in soil that stays moist. So this is perfect for that and it’s the only kind I buy.

This potting mix worked really in my raised bed contained. We had dozer work done and my new yard had mostly rocky soil. The solution for now was raised bed containers. I filled them will topsoil them lots of this potting mix.

I grew zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes, lettuce, onions, garlic and tons of flowers! It worked well for my mums as well. I’m well pleased and will but it again! I planted blueberry bushes in it too and they thrived!.

I bought many hundreds of dollars of this “purple” bag Garden Soil and Raised Bed soils. I used it in freshly made raised beds AND also in grow bags cause I didn’t want too light of a soil for the bags.

Just one small raised bed took 10 bags and. and I have a several other beds that I started and plantings in grow bags. MISTAKE. My plants with this soil. veggies and flowers. just sat there. barely grew AND after a few weeks they all showed signs of nitrogen deficiency.

It is marketed to “fertilize” up to 90 days. I honestly do not think the fertilizer part is effective at all in any of the soil I purchased of this brand. I did wonder. is it only good for 90 days AFTER bagged or 90 days after planting.

I’d say less than a few weeks. I am a old gardener and grow most of my food for at least 50+ years. This is NOT dependable for fertilization and I’m not sure if it is helpful with moisture control. When I started noticing a problem I went to another brand and not a bit of a problem with my starts or direct seeding.

SO I have had to resort to supplementing fertilizers and all the signs of nitrogen deficiency have gone and plants are growing. NOW I learned not to buy more expensive soils with “fertilizer” and just buy the bargain stuff and add my own fertilizer and not depend on such as this.

Well I just received my 40lb bag of soil, only it was 28lbs, old, dried out and basically just bad. I wouldn’t bother buying from this seller unless they assure you it hasn’t been sitting in a warehouse somewhere for months drying up.

Clearly there was 12lbs of moisture and nutrients that were missing because of whatever happened to the bag. That doesn’t happen over night or in transit.

Wow im so disappointed i have used this for years and now 2021 it is nothing more then mulch. What happened? This used to be the best i always recommended now its a waste of money. Its more expensive but way less quality wish i would have known before i bought my yearly supply.

The best potting soil I have ever purchased. I love putting my hands in this dark, rich soil. Some potting soils contain large wood chips and even rocks. You’re not going to find those types of fillers in this product.

Highly recommended. I have reordered multiple bags. It’s worth the price to get a fine quality product.

This Whitney Farms Organic Raised Bed Mix for plants and vegetables is really a great choice for potting mix. We used this for our vegetables, tomatoes, and a few tropical plants that needed some extra soil added and they all seem to like it really well! It’s also a huge bonus that it’s organic, which is great for home growing fruits and veggies! This bag was a little over 50 lbs and we were able to use it very generously across many of our plants and veggies! The mix seems to go pretty far when used.

The bag was a standard potting soil bag and was well made and didn’t seem to have any issues tearing open or leaking soil. The potting mix was easy to open and use. The quality of the soil seems to be very high and we were extremely satisfied with the high quality of it.

Our plants all responded well to this soil as well. This seems to have many good nutrients such as tree mulch, kelp and alfalfa meal, poultry meal and peat moss, which is a huge bonus! Overall we are very happy with this potting mix and we will definitely be using it again after we run out! I would definitely recommend this item to others.

I bought 4 bags of Nature’s Care from Home Depot. It is labeled as organic, so I didn’t think anything of the purchase. Cut to a couple of months later when I’m growing my potatoes in grow bags with this soil and there are little holes in all the leaves.

Look it up and see it is from flea beetles. a bug that lives in the soil. I was pretty confused since these are in grow bags in a gravel bed. How could the soil have become infected?!? Cut to weeks later, I check on my potatoes and find glass bits and plastic bits on top of the soil.

I think, how strange. did an animal bring something into the soil. Did this debris blow in here? And I forget about it. Then a couple of months later as I’m digging out potatoes and find plastic bits and glass all throughout the soil.

Top to bottom. It finally dawns on me that the plastic bits and broken glass came in the soil. I checked the half bag I have left and sure enough. plastic bits and glass bits. I went online to see if anyone else was reporting this issue and sure enough there are review after review about the problem.

Then I read some reviews online where people find Japanese beetle larvae in their new soil bags. OMG. Now I realized, the flea beetles which are soil based bug came in the soil. How is this garbage marked organic!!!!???!??!? Buyer beware.

While looking for an organic lighter mixture soil that permitted aeration, I was recommended this soil by a worker at Lowes. Normally you get what you pay for and this case was no different. It was the costliest in the store and it appears my seeds loved them.

I have tried other brands and even a few other varieties of Miracle-Gro, but this soil worked nearly as well as those special variety soils that would cost 80 to 100 dollars for 1 cubic ft. It has a surprisingly light texture, yet solid enough for planting seedlings.

I’m a hemp farmer and this product reduced operational costs by allowing us to water less thanks to compost makeup. While it does have very few small pieces of a certain bark which hemp seeds generally don’t like, we noticed faster germination and stronger stem growth.

We also did not add any additional fertilizer or plant food before the seedlings needed to be transplanted. I would recommend this soil if you are looking to water less, seeking a rich black appealing soil, and something organic.

Yes, it cost slightly more, however you can feel the quality once you open the bag and will notice the results. Since a money back guarantee is offered, I suggest purchasing this product and document your work with pictures and feeding process in case it doesn’t work for a full refund.

Also, documentation is a solid way to become a better grower. The only con, be aware of the compost ingredients. Understand while this and other soil mixtures may work well with most plants, other plants may not like a certain ingredient.

As for the cost, some consider it a con, but I don’t because it saves in the long run using less water and plant food. Enjoy the product, HempTonic Farmer, North Carolina, USA.

Horrendous , full of gnats , plastic , scraps, rocks and unidentifiable garbage that they want you to grow food with? I’m so disappointed. During covid there weren’t many options and the only place I could get to had this in stock.

I’ve stayed clear of all MG soil for many years because of these issues. I was desperate and the gentleman at the store assured me that the MG that I had purchased years ago at a big box Home Depot etc stores get very different shipments in of MG ( different serial #’s etc).

He stated that it’s more of a mass produced soil that they carry and that the small mom and pop shops ( true value etc) get better batches. Nope and nope. I never leave reviews but I’m about to leave this one here and also one for the raised bed soil that was just as nasty as this and when I called to complain they stated that NO ONE has EVER complained about miracle gro before that they know of.

And they gave me the option to return the bags. I had like 15 bags delivered to me ! Really? I took the loss and tried to dry it out and mix in stuff to make it fluffier and filter out the garbage but I just could not use it to grow food.

I mostly ended up throwing it all into a weed bed on the side of the house and around a tree in driveway PS THIS is a review for both the organic potting soil AND the raised bed soil. Both had gnats, shredded pieces of plastic , HUGE rocks ( in raised bed soil) , and random solid plastic shards- ALONG with toms of wood mulch!?.

i have no idea how they sell their potting soil as such, it’s so wet and heavy and has nothing but garbage in it!.

Sorry, but I have not had the time to open it yet. As it sits on my kitchen floor my cat makes good use of it as a stool. Since it is right near the side entrance he likes going out of, he has taken a liking to this package just as it is.

I am in the midst of moving and it has been quite disturbing. Therefore this has taken second priority for now. Although I am sure it will be put to good use. Now I find I have soil and plants, but not enough pots.

As I plan on taking the flowers that I ordered from seeds from your company.

This soil was recommended for use with microgreens, but it’s much too coarse to get optimal results. I even tested it against an OMRI listed seed starting mix and there was definitely a difference in yield.

However, it works great in pots, and produces new growth when used for transplanting.

This is my first review but it was delayed only because I have been busy building my outside patio garden this summer. Thanks to Epic Garden and True Leaf Market not only have I successfully grown tomatoes but also squash, herbs, beans, and tried new items such as ginger (wow) and cucamelons.

I learned how to start my seeds, sew my own grow bags and plant a productive patio garden! I’m growing Cat Grass for my kitties as well as microgreens for me. I highly recommend True Leaf for their superior products, prices and delivery!!.

Was gifted a bag of Baccato potting soil last year, it was nice soil. I do a lot of propagating each Spring and always need more dirt. Ordered 2 more bags this year, and was not as pleased with it. When I got halfway through both bags the soil was soil like a brick.

Haven’t decided if I will order more, as I always need more.

I have used Baccto 30 years and never a complaint. But, four months ago I bought 50# and it was unrecognizable! Sand replaced the peat and it’s terrible for my plants. Not to mention the price increased 50%! I am so disappointed!.

This quality potting soil is consistently, year after year, about the best buy on the market. It’s got the fertilizer and moisture holder in there too.

I needed some good soil for my sad garden. Read these reviews and raced to Ace to pick up three bags. Got them home, dumped them out, and the “soil” looks no different from what I could get at half the price from big box stores.

It seems mostly to be mulch; hardly anything resembling actual soil. I hate buying stuff in plastic bags where you can’t actually see what you’re buying.