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Landscaping

Welcome to Sydney Landscape Supplies' Landscaping section. On our website, you can shop landscape supplies right here. We offer quick and efficient delivery to both trade and DIY customers throughout Sydney, thanks to our large fleet of trucks. We have crane trucks with a reach of up to 21 metres, so we can put your landscape products wherever they need to go.

Your definitive guide to Sydney soils and how to improve them.

Let's talk dirty... discover more about soil and the proven ways to help your plants flourish.

Landscaping and growing plants without good soil is like feeding a kitten with sawdust and expecting it to grow into a lion.

Unfortunately for our plants, Sydney garden soils are the equivalent of the sawdust that poor kitten is eating*.

The most common types of soil found in Sydney are sandy soil or clay soil. (If you want to get scientific and find out more about soil formation in Sydney, check out this article.) Neither is nutritious enough for healthy plant growth and poor soil structure means that neither retains enough water to keep your plants' thirst satisfied.

Sandy garden soil is low in nutrients and water drains out of it quickly. It can suit some low maintenance native plants that are adapted to extract the few nutrients available, but if you want to grow anything else, particularly fruit and vegetables, sandy soil will need improvement.

Clay soil usually contains more nutrients than sandy soil, however, clay is impervious to water, so water flows away, rather than draining through the ground, leaving your plants and their roots high and dry. And without water, they go not only thirsty, but also hungry, as without it they can't access the nutrients in the soil.

Trying to grow plants in low-quality soil is like grooming your poor, underfed kitten. It's a surface fix that will ultimately fail as beneath the surface, the kitten, and your plants' roots will not be thriving.

Healthy garden soil is full of life. It's an entire soil ecosystem that supports not just worms and insects, but millions of microorganisms, living and thriving in every spadeful of good soil. These microorganisms are busily working in your soil, oxygenating it, cleaning it, creating and changing nutrients, and even helping plants absorb water and nutrients.

Good soil is known as loam soil. 'Loam' simply means a soil that has the ideal composition of clay, silt, sand and organic matter. Water will pass through loam at the right rate for your plants' roots to absorb--as well as the nutrients that the water delivers.

The simplest way to analyse your soil to identify what type it is is to dig your fingers into it. Scoop up a handful. Loamy soil will be crumbly and soft when dry and when it's damp it should be firm enough to roll between your palms. If it's lumpy and sticky, then the clay content is probably too high. If it's gritty, then it probably contains too much silt or sand.

So, if your soil is no good, how do you fix it? Don't panic, you don't need to remove the whole lot. Removing soil is toilsome and laborious and what do you do with it once you've dug it all up?! Dumps will charge you for the privilege. The answer is that you improve the soil that you have.

First of all, you need to think about what you want to plant. In the same way that people have different tastes in chocolate (creamy milk or bitter plain?) plants have different tastes in soil.

Native plants dislike soil that is high in phosphorus. Vegies prefer a different level of fertilizer and organic matter than flowers. Turf likes a specific soil and sand composition to encourage its strong annual growth period.

Luckily, you don't have to be a scientist to prescribe the right soil for your plants. At Sydney Landscape Supplies, we've done that bit for you. We've created different garden soil mixes to suit different types of plants. These are our key soils:

Organic Garden Mix is a mix of sand that has been improved by adding organic materials for a higher level of nutrient and to create optimum soil structure for drainage. A go-to general garden soil for most plants other than natives.

Native Garden Mix has been created to keep native plants happy, with low phosphorus and a coarse, free-draining soil texture to prevent waterlogging of their roots.

Vegie Organic Mix is a specially balanced blend of soils and composted organic material to nurture your vegetables from wrinkled seeds to delicious meals.

Turf Gro Premium Top Soil/Dressing & Underlay us a multi-purpose soil for use with turf, with plenty of nutrients and good drainage. Ideal for use as a top dressing for existing turf or as an underlay for new turf.

Planter Box Mix is the soil for, you guess it, planter boxes and rooftop gardens. If a planter box contains more than 300mm soil in depth, you should use two different kinds of soil. Planter Box Bottom Mix is the layer you need to use at the bottom of a deep planter box. It's blended so that it doesn't become anaerobic (anaerobic soils do not circulate oxygen properly.) For planter boxes 300mm deep or less, use Planter Box Top Mix and use this Top Mix for the top 300mm of deeper boxes. Both mixes are designed to support all types of plants.

Once you have decided what you want to plant, and where, chosen your soil and had it delivered, it's time to get out your shovel. Dig up your garden beds, going down a few inches, so that the soil is loose and crumbly. Cover this with a few inches of the soil you have chosen for your plants. Dig it through your existing soil to mix it thoroughly. While you are digging, add some compost or fertilizer for a treat for your young plants. Finally, lay a few centimetres of your new soil over the top and you will be ready to grow some pretty impressive plants.



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