Soil delivery?

[tiggrstaar.livejournal.com]

I need to get some soil delivered for a raised bed but I found some places like Cambridge Bark have medium levels of led in the soil since they use local leaves and yard waste for part of the composted soil. Does anyone have tips on places with low led in their soil that deliver and aren't super expense?

I also should add since I'm near Davis I don't have a wheel barrel or an exclusive drive way so if all soil delivery ends up with soil dumped in the driveway I'm not sure that would work for my situation. Thanks for any advice you may have!

Comments

[maelithil.livejournal.com]

A cursory google search showed nothing about lead, but we used Boston Bark (http://www.bostonbark.com/) to get soil and compost and everything worked out well.

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

The published <a href="http://www.bostonbark.com/soil-analysis-report-for-new-lawn-2012.pdf>soil analysis report</a> for Boston Bark shows only 186 PPM of Lead. That's well-below the generally-accepted safe vegetable garden level of 300 PPM. Fruiting plants don't generally fix lead; the big concern is with root vegetables, but thorough washing supposedly takes care of that.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

and even then, only a concern with pregnant women/ infants

another, less Eco friendly, option would be to buy the soil, but about half as much and then add a couple bails of peat moss and a few bags of sand. easy way to cut the lead in half (all soil has some lead)

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

Not directly relevant, but if you end up needing a wheelbarrow, I have one and will lend it.

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

my solution won't work for you, but wanted to say we had the same problem. We had our soil tested with medium/high levels of lead. Got soil from Cambridge Bark and Loam after they told us they had low lead levels (we specifically asked about it, and told them it was for putting in vegetable gardens). We sent it to be tested after it was delivered, and it tested almost as high as our yard! After a long phone call with my husband, they did refund us the money we paid for the soil, and we dug it all back out of our garden beds and added it into our yard.... We were able to get a truck's worth of cow manure from our neighbor who sells beef from MA farmers to local restaurants and used that. That's probably not a solution for you, unfortunately.

Good luck!

[courtney o&apos;keefe (from livejournal.com)]

As far as delivery is concerned, you may want to try Metro Pedal Power out of Union Square: MetroPedalPower.Com