Soil Guide

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What Do You Need Soil For?	Products To Consider	Product Advantages	Product Type	Additional Information
Budget \| Economy	Clay Loam	Multipurpose economic topsoil sourced locally from the Auckland region. This loam is high in clay content product that meets the needs of the economic DIYer or the budget conscious commercial project.	Topsoil	High Clay Ratio
Budget \| Economy	Sandy Loam	This sandy loam will provide great structure and is a beautiful rich looking soil, that's higher sand content makes it more porous than typical Auckland clay. The higher sand component make this loam ideal for new lawns, veggie patches or raising backyard garden levels.	Topsoil	Dark Rich Colour, High Sand Ratio
Growing Grass \| Roll Out Lawn	Prime Lawn	Our GMA designed and made weed free turf blend uses the highest quality ingredients required of a top shelf lawn mix. This mix provides exemplary support for maximum early growth and long term vibrancy in your lawn.	Blended Lawn Mix	Weed Free, Contains Pumice, Wetting Agent, Slow Release Fertilisers & Lime
	Loamy Lawn	Loamy Lawn is an economic general purpose lawn soil for creating and laying new grass, seed or turf. Designed specifically to combat Auckland’s high percentage clay soils, this fresh blend of dark sandy loam and pumice sand create a blend that is workable, free draining but still maintains moisture levels.	Blended Lawn Mix	Dark Rich Colour, High Sand Ratio
	ClayBuster	ClayBuster is Cubag’s unique solution to Auckland’s clay dense soils. Adding this blend to your existing grow media will help counter high clay content. Over time the added gypsum will neutralise dense clay particles in your garden.	Blended Lawn Mix	Contains Gypsum, Dark Rich Colour, High Sand Ratio
	Sandy Loam	This sandy loam will provide great structure and is a beautiful rich looking soil, that's higher sand content makes it more porous than typical Auckland clay. The higher sand component make this loam ideal for new lawns, veggie patches or raising backyard garden levels.	Topsoil	Dark Rich Colour, High Sand Ratio
	Paving Sand	Assists drainage and aeration to free up dense soils. Lightweight sand, dig in deep and mix in well.	Sand	Coarse Sand, Contains Pumice
General Garden Beds	Booster	Premium GMA formulated and manufactured garden soil to give the best start to plant life in new beds borders and raised planters. A weed free blended combination of aged composted bark fines, lime, slow release fertilisers, compost and pumice for assisted drainage.	Blended Garden Mix	Weed Free, Contains Pumice, Contains Slow Release Fertilisers & Lime
	Beds & Borders	This grow media has been designed for borders and flower beds. Our blend of fertile, clean topsoil and quality organic green wasted compost makes flowers beds & hedging come to life.	Blended Garden Mix	Contains Topsoil & Compost
	ClayBuster	ClayBuster is Cubag’s unique solution to Auckland’s clay dense soils. Adding this blend to your existing grow media will help counter high clay content. Over time the added gypsum will neutralise dense clay particles in your garden.	Blended Lawn Mix	Contains Gypsum, Dark Rich Colour, High Sand Ratio
	Garden Magic	Add organic matter with Garden Magic Compost. Enrich your soil with compost at a minimum annually, one of the best ways to give tired soils a kick-start of essential organic nutrients.	Compost	Soil Conditioner High In Organic Matter
Raised Planter Boxes	Booster	Premium GMA formulated and manufactured garden soil to give the best start to plant life in new beds borders and raised planters. A weed free blended combination of aged composted bark fines, lime, slow release fertilisers, compost and pumice for assisted drainage.	Blended Garden Mix	Weed Free, Contains Pumice, Contains Slow Release Fertilisers & Lime
	Prime Pots	Superb all round mix with plenty of nutrients on hand for plant development and growth in pots and raised planters indoors and out. Contains long term fertilisers, pumice for aeration and drainage and maintains moisture through the presence of peat in the blend.	Potting Mix	Weed Free, Contains Peat, Aged NZ Bark Fines, Pumice, Long Term Slow Release Fertilisers & Lime
	Garden Magic	Add organic matter with Garden Magic Compost. Enrich your soil with compost at a minimum annually, one of the best ways to give tired soils a kick-start of essential organic nutrients.	Compost	Soil Conditioner High In Organic Matter
	Scoria 25/7	This volcanic rock is great for drainage for below growing media. Some planter boxes will need additional drainage and this provides a great solution.	Porous Volcanic Rock	Ideal Drainage Medium
Pot Plants	Prime Pots	Superb all round mix with plenty of nutrients on hand for plant development and growth in pots and raised planters indoors and out. Contains long term fertilisers, pumice for aeration and drainage and maintains moisture through the presence of peat in the blend.	Potting Mix	Weed Free, Contains Peat, Aged NZ Bark Fines, Pumice, Long Term Slow Release Fertilisers & Lime
Pot Plants	Booster	Premium GMA formulated and manufactured garden soil to give the best start to plant life in new beds borders and raised planters. A weed free blended combination of aged composted bark fines, lime, slow release fertilisers, compost and pumice for assisted drainage.	Blended Garden Mix	Weed Free, Contains Pumice, Contains Slow Release Fertilisers & Lime
Growing Vegetables	Veg Patch Pro	Natural blend of high quality organic materials designed for optimum vegetable growing yields in New Zealand conditions. Give your veggie patch the ultimate start with this premium blend.	Organic Blended Vegetable Mix	Weed Free, Contains Pumice, Organic Fertilisers
	Booster	Premium GMA formulated and manufactured garden soil to give the best start to plant life in new beds borders and raised planters. A weed free blended combination of aged composted bark fines, lime, slow release fertilisers, compost and pumice for assisted drainage.	Blended Garden Mix	Weed Free, Contains Pumice, Contains Slow Release Fertilisers & Lime
	Beds & Borders	This grow media has been designed for borders and flower beds. Our blend of fertile, clean topsoil and quality organic green wasted compost makes flowers beds & hedging come to life.	Blended Garden Mix	Contains Topsoil & Compost
	Garden Magic	Add organic matter with Garden Magic Compost. Enrich your soil with compost at a minimum annually, one of the best ways to give tired soils a kick-start of essential organic nutrients.	Compost	Soil Conditioner High In Organic Matter
Filling Holes \| Back Fill	Clay Loam	Multipurpose economic topsoil sourced locally from the Auckland region. This loam is high in clay content product that meets the needs of the economic DIYer or the budget conscious commercial project.	Topsoil	High Clay Ratio
	Scoria 25/7	If you’re needing to backfill a retaining wall or area that gets a lot of water you wish to redirect, scoria is the solution. Scoria is perfect for assisting drainage as its porous characteristics allows water to flow through efficiently.	Porous Volcanic Rock	Ideal Drainage Medium
	Gap 20 & Gap 40	If your backfill project is in a high traffic area, you might be better off going with one of our hard fills. Gap 20 and Gap 40 are crushed greywacke metals perfect for driveways and hard landscaping.	Graded Aggregate \| Rock	Great Compaction Properties