Will Home Depot deliver soil and mulch? Who else does?

[Anonymous]

Live in NW DC and need a bunch of bags of soil and mulch for a landscaping project. Online, most of the Home Depot products are for sale "in store only." Is there to arrange delivery? Do I just set it up at the store, and how much does it cost?

Also is there a better gardening store to go to for this?

[Anonymous]

you can go online and order then pay $75 or so in delivery o rent a home depot truck. Same for Lowes.

[Anonymous]

How much do you need? Lots of smaller/local places deliver, but there is a minimum amount of mulch you have to purchase. We opted to go with Home Depot partly because we didn't know how much we needed, and partly because it made it easy to just drag and dump where needed.

My neighbors get mulch delivery, but it gets dumped in a pile by the curb and they have to wheelbarrow it all over the front and back yards.

[Anonymous]

Do you want bags (easier to lug around and keep neatly stacked, more expensive, produce a ton of plastic waste) or bulk (cheaper, messier, and all the labor is on you or a crew you hire)?

Also, what kind of soil do you want?

Most garden centers will deliver bags if you're in their service area. Call around.

The best place I've found for bulk mulch and bulk compost delivery is:

http://mulchandstone.com/

You have to order different materials to be delivered different days though, as they use dump trucks. (Oh and you have to have somewhere the dump truck can dump.)

[Anonymous]

We have ordered mulch and Leafgro from RELS Landscaping in Silver Spring. I am not sure how far their delivery area stretches though. They will deliver it either bagged or bulk (truck holds up to 8 cubic yards). You will need to have a driveway for them to dump it. I prefer to get bags. It is more expensive but easier to work with for DIY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you want bags (easier to lug around and keep neatly stacked, more expensive, produce a ton of plastic waste) or bulk (cheaper, messier, and all the labor is on you or a crew you hire)?

Also, what kind of soil do you want?

Most garden centers will deliver bags if you're in their service area. Call around.

The best place I've found for bulk mulch and bulk compost delivery is:

http://mulchandstone.com/

You have to order different materials to be delivered different days though, as they use dump trucks. (Oh and you have to have somewhere the dump truck can dump.)

Does Mulch and Stone require a delivery minimum?

[Anonymous]

We had a good experience with Grey Goose Farm.

[Anonymous]

OP here, thanks all! This is for the tiny front yard of a rowhouse, no driveway, so we need bags. The one gardening store that we're not that far from is Johnson's on Van Ness. But even if they deliver, I wondered if Home Depot would be cheaper for soil and mulch (with delivery). Anyone know?

[Anonymous]

For a small space it may be cheaper to get the bags yourself at HD and rent one of their trucks to take it home. You can use an online mulch calculator to see how much you will need. The mulch at HD usually comes in 2 cu. ft bags.

[Anonymous]

Independent garden stores are usually more expensive than HD but landscape supply places will be a little cheaper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had a good experience with Grey Goose Farm.

We just did this. GG charged 35 for delivery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks all! This is for the tiny front yard of a rowhouse, no driveway, so we need bags. The one gardening store that we're not that far from is Johnson's on Van Ness. But even if they deliver, I wondered if Home Depot would be cheaper for soil and mulch (with delivery). Anyone know?

how much mulch and soil are you talking about? you can go get 10bags/trip from HD. You can put 6 to 7 bags easy in the trunk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks all! This is for the tiny front yard of a rowhouse, no driveway, so we need bags. The one gardening store that we're not that far from is Johnson's on Van Ness. But even if they deliver, I wondered if Home Depot would be cheaper for soil and mulch (with delivery). Anyone know?

how much mulch and soil are you talking about? you can go get 10bags/trip from HD. You can put 6 to 7 bags easy in the trunk.

It's not a huge area (maybe 10x10) but we lost some soil when new concrete walkways were put in, so I think we need a lot.
While on the topic--I am new to gardening. I need to prepare this front yard for a garden. I assume I want to rent a tilller and loosen the soil, then add lots of top soil.

How deep should I dig, how many inches of top soil do I need, do I need to add anything else (manure, fertilizer?), do I put compost on top (and if so how much)?

[Anonymous]

mulch (not compost) on top

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks all! This is for the tiny front yard of a rowhouse, no driveway, so we need bags. The one gardening store that we're not that far from is Johnson's on Van Ness. But even if they deliver, I wondered if Home Depot would be cheaper for soil and mulch (with delivery). Anyone know?

how much mulch and soil are you talking about? you can go get 10bags/trip from HD. You can put 6 to 7 bags easy in the trunk.

It's not a huge area (maybe 10x10) but we lost some soil when new concrete walkways were put in, so I think we need a lot.
While on the topic--I am new to gardening. I need to prepare this front yard for a garden. I assume I want to rent a tilller and loosen the soil, then add lots of top soil.

How deep should I dig, how many inches of top soil do I need, do I need to add anything else (manure, fertilizer?), do I put compost on top (and if so how much)?

What kind of garden? Just some perennial plants/flowers? If so, you don't need much, if any, compost. I also wouldn't necessarily worry about a tiller. Get a pitch fork and loosen the soil where you plan on planting a bush/shrub/flower, maybe add a bit of garden soil or something if the soil is heavy in sand or clay, put in the plant and water it well for the first week or two.
If you're talking about a vegetable garden, then you'll need the tiller and compost.

Do you have access to a car? If so, go to HD or Lowes and buy 10 bags of dirt and mulch and see how far that gets you. I would approach this project in a "little by little" way so you don't end up with tons of extra mulch (my experience is the online calculators are on the generous side).