Many people desire an attractive lawn to accompany their home and find that despite all of their efforts in using the best grass seed, fertilizer and weed control products that they’re unable to grow an attractive lawn simply because they lack enough quality top soil to nurture the lawn they’ve planted. Other people discover that after building a new home that the contractor skimped on the landscaping, and that there are ruts, dips and other unattractive features in the topography of their lot that could be greatly improved with the addition of a load or two of top soil that could then be graded and seeded. Perhaps your landscaping is in good shape but you wish to fill your gardening boxes with soil in which to grow vegetables. All of these scenarios pose the same question: where does one go to get top soil in Connecticut?
One of the most reliable sources is Dunning Sand and Gravel in Farmington, CT. Dunning Sand and Gravel has a long history in providing Connecticut residents with quality products such as organic top soil, mulch, gravel, sand, and so forth. One of your primary considerations in purchasing top soil should be the quality of the soil — if this is going to grow the grass upon which your children and pets play, or grow the vegetables your family will consume, it’s important to know that it is clean soil, and that it is not laden with pesticides, poisons or other industrial waste products. Likewise, you also want it to be relatively free of seeds from weeds and especially, construction trash such as bits of broken brick, rock, wood scrap and the like. Good quality top soil should run through your fingers without many hard clumps or clods, should be free of clay and have a rich, earthy scent. The color should be a rich, dark brown and should you choose to test the pH, the closer it gets to neutral 7, the better.
By investing in premium top soil, whether for your lawn or for a garden spot, you’ll not be disappointed in the results. It would take years of enriching the existing top layer of some landscapes before you’d be even remotely close to the quality you’ll gain simply by having a few good truck loads of quality top soil in Connecticut brought in.