This proved to be one of the hardest decisions that we had had to make so far. Finding and buying the perfect soil was a scary prospect because depending on the decision that we made we'd be spending anywhere from 100-400 or more dollars and hinging the life of all of our fruits and vegetables on the decision. We could either have it delivered by the truckload or buy it in bags from the store. Despite the fact that the local, truck delivered stuff had all kinds of benefits, the bags won out based on the price and suggestions of people who had experience working with it. We went with a local brand that seemed really good quality. We had also used it for our roses and liked how it was working so far.
The next decisions was how much soil? Mr. Bartholomew (of Square Foot Gardening fame) suggested using 1/3 vermiculite, 1/3 peat moss, and 1/3 compost mixture. We quickly realized that we could not afford to attempt this mixture and decided (hoped) that the good old fashioned dirt kinda stuff would work just fine for us. So we ended up still doing 1/3 composted manure, 6/10 soil, and 1/10 peat moss.
We made a trip to the store and ended up with 40 bags of soil, 18 bags of composted manure, and 2 85 lb bags of peat moss....
AND promptly awoke the next morning to this beautiful sight:
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