TAGRO

For over 30 years, home gardeners have used and loved TAGRO products as a sustainable solution to help create beautiful, thriving gardens while minimizing their impact on the planet. Selecting the right product for your project can help ensure the health and vitality of your plants for years to come. Discover our line of TAGRO products below and the benefits for home use:

• Potting Soil: Our potting soil is ideal for container-grown plants. This nutrient-rich blend of biosolids, sawdust, and clean aged bark is great for both indoor and outdoor flowers, plants, and vegetable gardens. Bagged Potting Soil is available to purchase at our TAGRO Facility as well as a number of regional retailers. 
• Topsoil: Our Topsoil is a four-way mix ideal for refreshing gardens and flower beds. It is an intermediary between native nutrient-barren soils and nutrient-rich manufactured soils such as TAGRO Potting Soil. TAGRO Topsoil adds organic matter and nutrients without decreasing porosity. TAGRO Topsoil meets the Type IV topsoil specifications of the Washington State Department of Transportation and the City of Tacoma.
• Aged Black Bark: Black Bark serves as a low-nutrient ground cover similar to traditional beauty bark – except that it’s black. It’s also ground finer than traditional beauty bark making it more visually pleasing to most gardeners. Black Bark contains no biosolids.
• Mix: What we call “Mix” features excellent organic soil conditioning properties to help pamper your lawn, flower beds, vegetable gardens, and more. Mix can help break up and aerate heavy soils, retain soil moisture to decrease watering needs, and provide a slow release of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus.
  • Our Mix self-serve “free pile” is also available to residential customers during regular business hours at our facility.

For questions

TAGRO products give our commercial users more choices for products that are ready to use. If our products don’t quite meet your needs or you need a different blend of nutrients, contact us and we can customize a product just for you. Call us to schedule a delivery, learn more about pickups, and pricing estimates.

TAGRO products are available for less than the cost of similar commercial products—for pick up or delivery. We also provide convenient invoicing for our commercial customers.

Please note the following pallet charges for commercial customers:

• Delivery Fee – $20
• Wholesale Cost of a Pallet (50 Bags) – $150
• Retail Bag Price – $6.50

Call to schedule a pickup or delivery

1. Fill out the Business Application and save it to your files. (Note: If you prefer to pay by phone, please indicate that by “checking” the appropriate box on the form and include your telephone number.)
2. Attach the completed application to an email and send it to cservice2@tacoma.gov
3. Please allow a minimum of two business days for approval process.
4. Once reviewed, we will notify you of your approval via email.
5. Once approved, head to the TAGRO facility to pick up your TAGRO products.
6. Invoices will be mailed to the address specified on your application. Payment will be due upon receipt.
7. If you requested to pay-by-phone, our team members will reach out to collect payment within two business days.

For questions

Yes! From home gardeners to professional landscapers and farmers, TAGRO is for everyone.

• Call to schedule a home or business delivery
• On-site loading at our facility – no appointment necessary
• Purchase pre-bagged at select local retailers (potting soil only)

Yes! We are open all year. TAGRO hours vary through the seasons so please check our current hours of operation.

We’re closed for lunch from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and on all City of Tacoma holidays.

Yes! We’re open year-round. March through September is our busy season, so we recommend scheduling your delivery early. We can schedule deliveries up to a year in advance!

The minimum for a single delivery is one cubic yard.

The maximum for a single delivery is 15 cubic yards.

The minimum for a single delivery outside city limits is three cubic yards.

The maximum for a single delivery outside city limits is 15 cubic yards.

One cubic yard will fill a standard size pickup truck with a 6ft bed.

At 1 inch of depth, a cubic yard will cover approximately 300 to 335 square feet (18 feet x 18 feet).

The “free pile” is a self-serve option and is our MIX product only. Whatever you shovel into your buckets, bags, or pickup truck it is completely free.

Mix is soil amendment used for supplying nutrients to depleted soils (e.g. Lawns, flower beds, vegetable gardens, etc.)

Potting soil is used for indoor and outdoor container gardening, potted plants and raised garden boxes.

Topsoil is meant to be used anywhere you need to import new soil (e.g. new lawn base, lawn leveling, building up a flower garden, etc.) Topsoil can also be used in raised garden boxes.

Aged Black Bark serves as a low-nutrient ground cover, similar to traditional beauty bark, but ground to a finer consistency. It helps with water retention for areas like flowerbeds and garden boxes.

Black Bark has NO bio-solid properties and contains no dyes.

Nope! TAGRO products are ready-to-use.

Topsoil is the only TAGRO product that could be used for fill dirt.

Yes. We exceed all the Environmental Protective Agencies (EPA) standards.

Biosolids are tested every two months in accordance with Washington State Department of Ecology requirements and meeting the Environmental Protection Agency’s Class A Exceptional Quality standards for approved use in gardens that grow food.

To ensure we deliver a safe product, TAGRO Cake/Biosolids are tested bi-monthly for heavy metals, conventional pollutants and bacteria. On a quarterly basis, the biosolids are analyzed for 13 Priority Pollutant Metals, Cyanide and PFAS; and annually they are tested for all of the above and Organic Toxic Pollutants including 57 Semi-Volatile Compounds, 28 Volatile Compounds, 18 Pesticides, and PCBs.