Mucks just been delivered! ? 8 bags of it!
Mr P, being a gentleman, offered to help unload it. I've only just stopped laughing at the expression on his face! 
Right at the beginning of lockdown I spent a week creating a new raised bed that I specifically wanted to be for roses. Previous owners had dumped rubble and black bin liners on it and so the soil had no nutrients for anything to grow. I alternated layers of top soil, compost, manure, top soil, compost, manure. The worms and rain took the top layer of manure down to the bottom. I planted 5 young rose bushes in April and so it's a very new bed but this was taken today. They seem to be flourishing!
Thank you Whitewavemark2 I don't think I'll have much energy once I've moved approximately 2 tons of topsoil by bucket!
Although of course once I've moved quite a bit of it, then hopefully Mr P and I can manhandled the bag with the rest in and tip it in.
Well, that's the plan 
H1954 it definitely won't be equal quantities!
The planters will be used for clematis, (Koreans Amber) a climbing rose (to be decided, but leaning towards New Dawn, honeysuckle and some perennials.
The clematis and rose won't be available until October/November, so plenty of time to plan, but the local supplier of topsoil is very particular! Deliveries can only be booked and scheduled after they have looked at the weather forecast and consulted the runes!
Hello all, after a bit of advice.
I have 2 very large raised bed/planted type thins, and will be ordering 2 dumpy bags of topsoil tomorrow which I hope will be delivered this week, fingers crossed!
I've also been lucky enough to source some well rotted (hopefully) manure, which will be dropped off later today.
Now, once the soil is delivered and I've managed to get it round to the garden (which may take some time, as somebody left a space too narrow for a wheelbarrow when they were sorting out the fence and the gate 
) do I mix the manure into the soil, or would it be better to do sort of "layers"?
Thank you!
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