British Sugar Top Soil
Having made the raised beds we now needed to fill them up, easy you might think! However, using a number of online topsoil calculators we discovered that to fill all 10 of our raised beds we would need over 20 tons … eeekk!
After looking around at local Norfolk topsoil suppliers we realised that a delivered ‘per ton’ price was coming out at over £70, so doing the maths this was going to cost over £1,400!!! However, a useful friend recommended that we contact British Sugar. British Sugar you might ask?! Well, every year they have a surplus of top grade arable land topsoil produced as a by-product of the sugar beet production process.
Sad, but they have a great video here you can watch the top soil production process. So this means we are using a ‘green’ topsoil as it has effectively been recycled 
One quick call and within 48 hours we have 20 tons of topsoil delivered for a fraction of the cost. Then all we had to do was shift it and fill the raised beds – that was the hard part! A family effort ensued and my mum, faithful as ever, helped shift approx 6-7 tons of topsoil from the top paddock down to the garden. The last leg was having to barrow it into the beds (even the kids helped with small bucketfuls!), after which we were all pretty wiped out! Next, bring on the planting!!
Raised Bed Filled with Top Soil
Tags: British Sugar Top Soil, Home Grown Organic Vegetables, Norfolk Top Soil, Raised Beds, Vegetable Patch
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