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Potting Soil

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $9.7M a year here. But the top 5 brands take 96% of clicks, so Potting Soil is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
61
61 / 100
Top 28% of 8,839 Patio, Lawn & Garden niches · +5 vs the category median of 56
Market size
$9.7M/yr7.9M searches / yr
90-day growth
+24.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
57%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 39 sellers

Flapen Score

Potting Soil against its category

The dotted line is the Patio, Lawn & Garden average. Past it, Potting Soil is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

61Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Potting Soil market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Potting Soil 7.9M times last year and spent an estimated $9.7M. The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks. Demand peaks in Mar–Apr–May. Flapen scores it 61 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 7.9M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +24.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $9.7M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
7.9M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+24.6%
Conversion, latest week
7.8%
Market size, estimated
$9.7Ma year
Peak month
May2.8× the quietest month
Top search term
potting soil1.8M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $15.95.

Listings sell for $15.95 on average, from $7.32 to $35.80. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 600K to 800K a year. The average listing sells 30,000 to 40,000 of them. At $15.95 that is $479K to $638K a year per listing.

Average price
$15.95inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$7.32–$35.80
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
600K–800K
Units per listing a year
30,000–40,000
Revenue per listing a year
$479K–$638K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 82% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #22 within Soils, Mulches & Planting Media. It carries 5,089 reviews at 4.53 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
82%
Out of stock, average day
2.6%
Average rank
#22in Soils, Mulches & Planting Media
Average rating
4.53 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
5,089per listing
Listings tracked
22

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 49 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
49 months

Products

Top Potting Soil products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 57% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

39

Top-5 brand share

96%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

57%

Top 20: 98%

Open market

2%

  • Brand 174%
  • Brand 27%
  • Brand 36%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 2%)

Demand

Potting Soil search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

250K150KSpike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Mar, Apr, May · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.8×

Search terms

Top Potting Soil search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • potting soil1.8M/yr
  • soil1.0M/yr
  • dirt923K/yr
  • potting soil outdoor plants433K/yr
  • garden soil461K/yr
  • potting soil indoor plants763K/yr
  • miracle grow potting soil351K/yr
  • potting mix287K/yr
  • top soil261K/yr
  • indoor potting soil320K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Potting Soil

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

38%of positive reviews mention “Plant Growth”
16%of negative reviews mention “Plant Growth”
0.4%of orders come back
“in it will not grow”
A buyer, on “Plant Growth”16% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

14 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Potting Soil questions

Answered from the same tracked data.