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This is my first year for planting veggies. I bought a bunch of Organic Choice garden soil even though I knew it wasn't right for containers. The Lowes guy assured me it could be amended so that it would work. Whatever. Anyways, should I return it and start from scratch? Or what should I put in it to make it work. I plan on growing tomatoes, herbs, and cukes.

You could get some potting soil and mix the two together... I'd do it about half and half. Or you can just get peat moss and perlite and mix a bunch in to lighten and loosen your soil up.

What you bought, mixed half-and-half with a good potting soil, will probably work fine for tomatoes and cukes.

For the herbs, I suggest you start with the half-and-half mixture, and combine one part of that to about 1/4 part of perllite. You could even add a couple handfuls of coarse sand, if you have any available. Herbs prefer a leaner soil mix than tomatoes and cukes.