Bagged Top Soil and Potting Soil are stored outside on pallets around our parking lot. Inside the retail shop you can find Coir Bricks (coconut husk fiber, an excellent sustainable peat moss substitute), Orchid Mix, Rock Garden Soil Mix and Seed Starting Mix.

We offer the tried and true products that we have found to be reliable as well as newer methods of solving problems. For example, if you have heavy clay soil, try amending it with coir to lighten it. The coir is sold in compressed light-weight bricks you soak in water. It expands to a light fluffy texture which is easily incorporated into the soil. Your plants will love it!

Our New Soil Test Program

Our goal in organic gardening is to feed the soil and the soil with then feed the plants. The very first step is to take a soil test from various sections of your yard. New this year, Natureworks is offering a high end soil testing service and evaluation. The results will be emailed to us and to you from a professional soil testing laboratory in Virginia that is recommended by NOFA/CT.  We will then help you interpret the results and choose the best organic products to feed your soil. The cost is $40 for up to 2 samples, $20 per sample thereafter.

The results of the soil test will tell you if you need lime, and if so, which kind based on the calcium and magnesium in the soil. It will tell you the cation exchange capacity, which will in turn indicate how well your soil can absorb and hold onto organic nutrients. It will tell you which basic nutrients you are high or low in, which will help us to fine tune your organic fertilizer and mineral powder recommendations.  We may suggest additional products to quickly help the soil recover from chemicals, compaction, or neglect, things such as Organic Plant Magic (a dehydrated fresh brewed compost tea powder) and Stress-X (a powdered form of liquid seaweed that reconstitutes to up to three gallons of product.) We may suggest either Quoddy or Penobscot blend Coast of Maine compost depending on whether you need a bacterially dominated or fungally dominated soil.  Sounds complicated? Don’t worry. We are here to help.