Anne, no, we do not have sandy soil, but the rose bed is 36 inches high (18" below ground, and 18 inches above) and was filled by our own combination of new topsoil (which comes with a small percentage of sand mixed in), peat moss, chopped grass sods, gypsum, and what little humous we had available... Oh, yes, I also scraped the soil which we had removed from the hole with a steel rake, and returned that earth to the mixture. It would seem to me that after an 8 hour water soaking, I should give the whole bed some fresh fertilizer, no? Penny ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.