Garden Valley Soil Conditioner

Garden Valley Natural and Organic Soil Conditioner is a rich, multi-ingredient planting mix made by Rexius in Eugene, Oregon. The formula combines bark, compost, coconut coir, sphagnum peat moss, perlite, and wood biochar with a full complement of natural fertilizers including fish bone meal, feather meal, blood meal, oyster shell, alfalfa meal, and kelp meal. Limestone is added for pH balance. The biochar component is particularly notable, improving soil structure over the long term by increasing water and nutrient retention in ways that persist season after season.

Use this conditioner when you want to upgrade the native soil in an outdoor garden bed or build a raised bed from scratch. Work it in deeply when amending in-ground beds, blending it with your existing soil at roughly equal parts. For raised beds, it can function as the primary soil with no further amendment needed. It suits vegetables, perennials, shrubs, and annuals equally well, and the perlite content keeps drainage intact even in heavier clay soils common along the Oregon coast.

Rexius has been producing premium soils and compost products in the Willamette Valley for decades, developing formulas specifically for Northwest growing conditions. We carry the Garden Valley Naturals line because it is a serious, thoughtfully built product from a local manufacturer who understands our region's wet winters and dry summers.