What is 'topsoil'?

What is 'topsoil'?

Topsoil is basically the top two inches of soil that is scraped off the land, and unfortunately topsoil is not very highly regulated so soil can continually be scraped off and that would be the top two inches for that area. It can be very low in nutrients and normally it is, so that's a mistake often gardeners make - they feel they bring in a load of topsoil, but this topsoil may have very few nutrients and it may do very little to actually improve the soil structure that we're working with.