Filthy, Stinking, Rich Dirt for Home Gardening

Dig into one of these eight soil amendments to help turn your garden-variety dirt into gold.

So you aren’t ready to go all-in on a worm bin. But your plants can still benefit from the wrigglers’ manure. Combine it with your soil mixture or with water to make a compost tea—a brown fertilizer liquor of sorts—to spray onto leaves.
Best for: Potted plants, which are more easily burned by chemical fertilizers. $36.86 for 30 lbs. at Hydrobuilder