You might also try and call your local Lowes store…who also stock it in some stores. Copyright © 2011 - Boulevard. But of course you have to pay the retail price, so that would work if you were an individual and I’m not suggesting you give this information to your customer, but let’s see if we can get our mix in your store, one way or another. That would be the ideal solution. Mel Bartholomew was the founder and inventor of the Square Foot Gardening method and the author of All New Square Foot Gardening, the best-selling gardening book in America for a generation. I sure wish we could get Home Depot to settle on a reasonable shipping rate. Get Square Foot Gardening Soil on Amazon with Free Shipping* Mel’s Mix is available on Amazon in 2 cu. So bless you for persevering and starting your SFG. If your just talking about windowsill gardening with pots, this probably would not be practical. Model # NW 11760 You raise a good point and thank you for telling us about your experience. BUT if you do this, there is a better chance of getting a much better shipping deal. I am going to contact my local LOWE’S and see if they can get your soil in stock. He then called the manufacturer. Or you can make your own, one would be dried grass clippings. The answer… to have a Square Foot Garden, to nurture, harvest, and enjoy. Each of my 3 teenagers is going to be in charge of a 4×4 area that will be their own. I’m glad you were able to order from Home Depot through the internet and yes, it is nice to have it delivered right to your door. When he created the "square foot gardening" method, Mel Bartholomew, a retired engineer and efficiency expert, found the solution to the frustrations of most gardeners. I’m sure if you mean using containers in place of a square box. So hopefully we can get over all these hurdles and get the Mel’s Mix out where the people need and want it. If you call and a man answers, hang up and call again until you get a lady. (We own about 6 acres, but it is all hills and what is flat either has a building on it or is clear on the other side of the property. Plant a different flower, vegetable, or herb crop in each square foot; using 1, 4, 9, or 16 plants per square foot. Can you send me some pictures of your garden, even during construction, and early growth? So I’ve got to leave it up to each of you. You’ll have more fun taking care of each square and it will get more attention and reward you more because of that. Just like as if you had your garden in a big flower pot. It is possible Lowe’s carries them on the east coast as well, clearancing them each year at the end of the season to make room for other items. Even our supplier cannot control the matter either. After several days, if it doesn’t change back to $55, then I have to assume they are going to keep it at $150. It is the same ingredients and formula as the Home Depot bags it’s just a different cover on the bag. They CANNOT order it at the store as the SKU number isn’t in the local system. They all will stock it if there are enough requests. Either way, lets get you some pallets of Mel’s Mix. Home Depot open to new beginnings. In my next column, I will discuss how to start planting. We can keep the soil healthy with less disturbance (digging/tilling) and no compaction from walking on it. I’ll hold off on more 4x4s til next year. For obvious reasons this was not an ideal situation for us or the customer (esp. I have exceptionally good news for you. Will you do that for me? I just get too confused with all the other things and math and all that…. They are ready in only 4 weeks and so delicious, I want enough for daily salads! Do not mention my name or the SFG Foundation’s name, just say you are a customer that wants to order so many bags of this product number, 11760, and what is the best shipping deal you can give me. So to answer your question in detail I am going to write and call them for a more complete description for all of their ingredients. You can see from that description that they merely say 1/3 compost and do not identify them exactly and specifically. Can you sell that much? I was thrilled and honored to read your letter. As each square is harvested, you add a trowel full of compost, and replanted with a different crop, depending on the season. I can’t justify spending so much for shipping, that’s insane. 3) New Soil - The new "Mel's Mix" is the perfect growing mix. That is crazy. I am so distress to hear your experience. There is no option to ship to my store. However it sure is better than trying to dig up you existing soil and improve it. We would love advice because we are so very confused but excited to start this. Another point you might consider, especially when talking with others, is your Mel’s Mix is going to last you for at least 10 years. Apparently, different manufacturers in different parts of the garden industry use different names for the same thing. Mel. Call 1-800-430-3376. If those ingredients come from different manufacturers, in different sizes of bags…with different ingredients, it will just have to be that way until we can get Mel’s Mix in every nursery and big box store in the country. Garden Time 1.3 cu ft Phalaenopsis Mix Soil Mel Bartholomew’s Square Foot Gardening has taken the home gardening world by storm. But let’s see if we can figure out something. We should all be so fortunate to leave such a legacy, positively impacting so many lives in perpetuity. 6. Calling it Potting soil is a bit contradicting since Mels Mix is a soiless mix Did something change with the $55 prices everyone is talking about? I filled the beds with 2-4″ of rock (for drainage) and almost to the top with this soil. Goodbye”. We lost a dear friend last April when Mel Bartholomew, who created the Square Foot Gardening system in 1976, passed away at the age of 84. It’s a formula, created by Mel Bartholomew, for blending compost, peat moss, and vermiculite to achieve a loose, friable soil that drains beautifully, holds nutrients well, and keeps weeds from taking over. 3. Thank you again for you letter and I hope we can get you some speedy replies. The local stores all can’t order it in for some reason. since we don’t have a Home Depot anywhere near us). The nature of this method means that weeding and hoeing are minimised. That’s probably where the arithmetic gets tricky. Read the Book, 2. But here’s a solution for you: we understand from Home Depot that that is the maximum charge for home delivery and if you order extra bags beyond those 6, they will be shipped free. Of course, when you said a lot of soil, I was thinking you might have 10 4’x4′ boxes in some sort of combination, such as a couple of 4’x12′ boxes and even a few 3’x3’s for children. I built FOUR raised beds and put them on top of cinder blocks to give me depth for planting ANYTHING I want to plant AND to avoid the desert soil (clay). Ingredients: 30-40% compost, +Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss, Coir,+ Vermiculite, & Bone Meal, Blood Meal, Kelp Meal, Cottonseed Meal, Alfalfa Meal, and Worm Castings. Sure, … P.S. Actually, when you think of the cost of going to the store and all the trials and tribulations-if you consider a typical trip to the store, it might go something like this: Get everyone organized to go, then fight traffic, try and find a close parking spot by driving around the parking lot, aisle by aisle, finally park, go inside to search, find the display, talk it all over again, look for the kids, then go get a cart, load up, stand in line to pay, search the parking lot for where you left the car, find a dent in your car door, load into car, tear and spill one bag all over your nice new van, have to fill up on gas, end an argument of I told you so, decide to stop for lunch, go home, unload, collapse, etc. Space boxes 3` apart to form walking aisles. Item #383743 1/3 of a 5 compost blend What happened to the $55? I hope that gives you the go ahead to get started. Do not try to order on the internet, you cannot negotiate with a computer. It looks like I will be making my own mix. Those ingredients mention animal manure based compound but don’t mention the type of animals. Because of the 3 major ingredients to Mel’s Mix (1/3 coarse vermiculite, 1/3 blended compost, 1/3 loose peat moss – equal volume of these ingredients), that material has the ability to hold water, saving it for the plants when they are thirsty. All I can advise is as mentioned on my blog, treat it just like the weather…wait until tomorrow and it might be a sunny day and then you can go to the beach. It does not stay loose and friable. Melissa. You have a very important message for the world and you can help me get that out to others who will benefit greatly from your experience. The 4×4 box will take 8 cubic feet of Mel’s Mix. Assuming it is the same product but different sizes, you are paying 40% more at Lowe’s. The world's most popular alternative gardening method Since Square Foot Gardening was first introduced in 1981, the revolutionary new way to garden developed by Mel Bartholomew has helped millions of home gardeners grow more fresh produce in less space and with less work. Here’s the link to our latest notice, and I hope this works for you. lately it’s driving me insane so any help is very much appreciated. Everything is decided by Home Depot. I would like to know more specifically what is in your mix. The bags that Lowes are 2.0 cubic feet (not 3.0 cubic feet) and I’m not sure of their selling price. If you want to do that, then I would suggest they pick the best person to order and follow the following directions. If you box is smaller or different than that, just write me back and I’ll help you with that size. I’m afraid I can’t suggest anything. Though if its really only 2 cu ft than its only a 9% price increase since 2010, a little more believable. Hi Mel, Thank you for your reply! Super rewarding. The 2 square feet, I’m not sure what you mean. Good luck this summer and please stay in touch with your progress. I’m truly sorry for the situation. The shipping fee listed is $150, not $55. Note: While we love this method of planting, we don't love Mel's soil mixture as we Here's Mel Bartholomew, the … And what is your experience with gardening?? As you can well imagine, any good soil mix is going to be at first sounding very expensive, but when you think about all that it takes to gather all the ingredients, with proper mixing and traveling, it really is a bargain. That’s another good point to think about. All best, Tried to order online- NO local store pickup (Tidewater Va). Try again the next day and hope it works then. (1) Store pickup is available from Home Depot from select east coast stores, while for Lowe’s I found them on the west coast. I’ll get to the rest tomorrow. Add Mel’s Mix. Highly recommended for flower and vegetable gardens, Ideal potting soil mix for raised garden beds, planters and pots. Here’s a link to my latest book All New Square Foot Gardening, 2nd Edition. It was invented by backyard gardener and engineer Mel Bartholomew. Do you have any other options for ordering? Square foot gardening is a simple method of creating small, orderly, and productive kitchen vegetable gardens. Try not to get the leaves wet. any plugin or anything you can suggest? I can’t believe how much I’m growing now! So that’s what I’m going to do. 1. I can, of course, have it shipped to my home for more than double the retail price!!! Many people have written to tell us it was actually cheaper to buy the all mixed bags rather than finding all the different ingredients separately. Do not try to order on the internet, you cannot negotiate with a computer. Is the &55fee no longer available? But considering our nearest Home Depot is over 60 miles away we would have paid about 24 dollars for gas to get there and back. Even our supplier cannot control the matter either. Or will that defeat the purpose of the things I grow seeking water in the ground? It’s the only way we’re going to get it out there. I can’t afford to buy it from Home Depot’s website, I only need a few bags and shipping is killer at $10.99. This may seem like a foolish question, but can this be used for indoor container planting? When you do find Mel’s Mix, the bag will tell you how many cubic feet it has. They seemed to have settled now on $150 maximum and they have been a little upset at the number of calls. So I’ve got to leave it up to each of you. ft. bag and it’s named Square Foot Gardening Potting Soil Mix. Thank you for the reply. Link: http://www.homedepot.com/p/203272590, Lowe’s 1. Googled…bought your e-book and consumed it in 2 days and started ordering plants and seeds. Wanted to order 32 bags of Mel’s Mix and have it delivered to our Community Garden in Chillicothe, Ohio. Just “Chatted” with a rep from Home Depot. . Hello, i read your blog occasionally and i own a similar one and Home Depot this year has 1.5 bags and there official name is Square Foot Gardening Potting Soil Mix and it has a product number of 11760 at $8.95 per bag. Thanks again for your very informative letter and all of the information you have collected. Mix the Perfect Soil Cocktail. Dear Tom, Build bottomless boxes to hold new soil mix. Grow Rich: DPW? Hi Mel, I went to order a bunch of your mix online from Home Depot (it’s not carried here locally) and was charged $10 per bag for shipping. Taking up gardening in 1975 when he retired from his civil engineering career, Mel quickly realized that planting in widely spaced rows, while useful for large, mechanized, single-crop farm fields, didn’t translate well to … If it’s not several pallets, and there are 50 bags in a pallet, I think it would be too expensive to ship. At first, I understood plan b, that when you order, they would ship your order to your local store at no charge, but that turned out to be erroneous and I thought, if the store has to carry it for you to order it online, then you can just go to the store and pick it up off the shelf. Even our supplier cannot control the matter either. I have been taking photos and will gladly share them – I’ll look around your site to see how to do that. I couldn’t find OMRI-certified compost at east coast stores, but can get compost from produce stores and small animal farms for free or close to free. 3. How many bags at 1.5 cubic foot each do you need to buy to equal the 8 cubic foot space? I was so looking forward to starting my SFG this weekend for the first time ever and the pre-made mix was an answer to prayer. So that is how we teach Square Metre Gardening in 3rd world countries. The whole SFG system is based upon…Forget everything you’ve ever learned about typical backyard gardening. A couple of notes: The problem is it takes a new product and manufacturer years and years of effort and toil to get in all the local nursery and big box garden centers. Just for your private information, Home Depot is now offering Mel’s Mix not in thier stores, but online and they will ship it to you at a fairly reasonable price. Although the UPS delivery lady didn’t know what to think. I guess I will just have to try to assemble the different components on my own. Everything is decided by Home Depot. You can do it. Everything is decided by Home Depot. The Square Foot Gardening principle is pretty simple. I’m sorry Tracy it’s going to cost so much to ship just six bags. Thank you. All rights reserved. Build your box. Your situation applies to so many people in the world and when you don’t feel good, why even get up you think. My brother recommended that we buy Mel’s Mix rather than trek all over town trying to find each of the recommended ingredients for the soil. With enough light, the plants will do just fine. They will not ship the product to their store or carry it in their store. Follow all the directions in the book. It sounds great! I think you need to fight to have it available everywhere! Long Live Square Foot Gardening! Here’s what others have accomplished. We would love to have it in Canada, but I’m afraid not yet. Yes it is the same product…sometimes in different size, color and descriptive bags. Should we adjust the recipe for our area? That has actually changed peoples lives as well as being a great advantage to the environment. All you have to do when watering a SFG is to keep the soil moist. As a result of your letter, I’m going to write a new column and actually show the different bags and what they look like at different big box stores. Or when you add plywood bottom to your 3×3 or 4×4, you can move it about depending on the season, situations, and you can even put in the van and take it on vacation with you. So Thank You Home Depot for that. Just like as if you had your garden in a big flower pot. 5. With your 50 bags that’s only a $1.10 per shipping and that’s not bad at all. Everything is being done by Home Depot. Stock up on it! Thank you! Mel, is Home Depot the only place that Mel’s Mix can bought online? The initial cost per bag is quite reasonable: $7.95 for 1.5 cubic feet and shipping per bag goes down as you order more to the same address. Thanks again! Thank you for all of your help and support. Water by hand from a sun-warmed bucket of water. Now a 100% compost mix will be stronger in nutrients obviously, but does not hold or drain water as well. ), Be sure it is not near trees and shrubs. The Grid and the Guru Our grid is fashioned after the raised bed system made famous by engineer-turned-gardener Mel Bartholomew and his book Square Foot Gardening (public library). 18-20 bags for each garden, but I now have no fear of planting and loose soil…and no weeds and do not plan to use fertilizer. Actually it all happened last night and today. EKO Original: may not use because it contains peat moss and perlite, just trying to find at least 5 types. In 1976 Mel invented Square Foot Gardening as a simple alternative to labor intensive and inefficient row gardening. Mel Bartholomew, author of the book Square Foot Gardening, thought not. The potting soil has earthworm castings, the bat guano, and the composted forest humus, perlite, peat moss, humic acid, oyster shell & dolomite lime. Where will the boxes go? Do you have your boxes, and grids and ground weed fabric all ready?? MEL BARTHOLOMEW is the originator and inventor of the Square Foot Gardening™ method. All of them are on our deck. Whatever they post on the website is what it’s going to be for that day. Could you recommend compost sources that would give us the necessary nutrients if avoiding bone meal and blood meal? The manufacturer said they ship to 7 states and are not equipped to ship to Virginia. Square Foot Gardening Crossword I hope this doesn’t give an invitation to spammers to go ahead and send a lot of stuff. Square Foot Gardening was invented in 1976 by Mel Bartholomew, a retired engineer who wanted a simpler way to garden. In fact there’s a drawing in the original book on page 253. Pick an area that gets 6-8 hours of sunshine daily. I have read in forums that dryer climates with high winds don’t work with soils with that much peat moss. But if it has my picture on it, either the name Mel’s Mix, or a Square Foot Gardening Potting soil and finally the only company we authorize to make our official Mel’s Mix is the Gro-Well company and the Garden Time company. We have also started composting so once we have a finished batched we will add that to the plants. ), Area must not puddle after a heavy rain. I’ve bought more than I care to disclose . But as I mentioned on my blog previously, I got in trouble trying to reason with them and we were told if Mel or anyone from the SFG Foundation calls again, they will take the product right out of the catalog. Put that product number in the search and you can order your 64 bags from Home Depot and believe or not the shipping will only be $55.00 (which is .86 per bag – isn’t that amazing). The customer service rep said the shipping program is new and hopefully will be available to all store by the end of the year. The benefits of the mix included keeping soil friable and virtually weed free with all the necessary nutrients. You can buy mulch from the nursery by the bag – they’ll have several different types. They have monopoly on your mix right now, so it looks like they feel they can charge whatever they want. Divide your new garden in half and mix in the rock dust with one of those halves and the recommended Mel’s Mix in the other half. Mel: see my response in prior comment made a few minutes ago. Remember that the vermiculite and peat moss allow the soil to not only breathe which the roots need but also hold a lot of water and especially the vermiculite does a great job of that. Try again the next day and hope it works then. You are merely looking for material that will keep the sun from baking the surface and still allow air to breathe down to the soil and roots. Apparently, different manufacturers in different parts of the garden industry use different names for … Closest store was in New Mexico, over 400 miles away. I did buy more pre-made Mel’s Mix so I can plant more baby salad greens mix in whatever small containers I can scrounge up. If it’s too much, say “Tell your boss that’s way too much and I have to cancel my order. For 6 bags the shipping fees were going to cost me about $55…more than my total purchase. In square foot gardening, we have to make the most of what little space we have. Thank you for your letter and sorry for that first unsatisfactory experience, but try again, lets see if we can’t make it work! There must be many SFG’s in New York City – nice! Send me some pictures, so I can share them with others. I decided to hold off as this is too expensive. My italian rose bean plants are only a foot tall but already have ~10 big bean pods each. Keep trying and Good Luck! We’ve had our Mel’s Mix in Lowes at different stores at different times. Thank you Sandy for your experience and let’s hope everyone follows your suggestions. In fact what you are suggesting is exactly what we do in 3rd world countries. They will respond to your inquiry and request, so please call them. One last guess on my part, vermiculite is the most expensive ingredient and I’ll bet that is not in the Happy Frog mix…so that would be a addition add too. Make a square foot grid for the top of each box. 2. Home Depot sells 1.5 cu ft for $8.97 (63% more). How many bags? Model #GT-11730. Whatever they post on the website is what it’s going to be for that day. any suggestions on how NOT to get gouged by shipping? I can understand you don’t want to order from Home Depot and sell from Lowes. After much experimentation, Bartholomew concluded that his formulation of 1/3 peat moss or coconut coir, 1/3 vermiculite and 1/3 blended compost yielded superior results in only a 6 inches (15 cm) depth. Hope all goes well for you. $8.98 a bag. In the past, Home Depot has changed the shipping from $55 maximum, then to $150 maximum, then to no longer available. Item # 383743 It tells you, for what size box, how much Mel’s Mix you need in cubic feet. It’s astounding that so many big, diverse plants can grow from only 6″ of soil! I’m dealing with long-term illness and the ease and magic of my garden help me get up and outside every day regardless of how I’m feeling. Yes, the shipping is expensive, however, if you consider a typical trip to the store and you’re not buying a lot, you will find the costs are about equal. I’m sorry to hear your story. The local Las Vegas LOWES stores has Mel’s mix on sale at just over $4.00. Thank you. i was just curious if you get a lot of spam comments? 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