What's the differents between garden soil and top soil
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garden soil is the dark soil filled with nutrients your plants need. top soil for example is the dry dead soil from construction sites they have left over.. doesn't help plants at all.
The term "garden soil" is often used on packages of premixed soils sold at home improvement stores, but it is not actually a separate type of soil. Soil in a home garden has its own unique texture and combination of sand, silt, clay and various minerals. Packaged garden soils are mixed to incorporate a variety of soils and textures, and they are often mixed to target a particular type of garden or plant --
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Top soil is pretty much just black dirt and clay. Garden soil is amended somewhat to incorporate into existing soil or to fill a garden. Potting soil is amended especially for plants that are in pots and they need more amending than plants in the soil because the nutrients don't get put back in like a garden gets from worms, degrading leaves, etc..