I just paid $216 delivered from a reputable local place for 3 yards of screen top soil. Last picture is after I sprayed it with water and you can see all the rocks. Not sure if I should use it
Yea screened with chain link fence.. send that crap back.
lifeispain92
Very aggravating because I need to seed this weekend ☹️ Hopefully they will give me my money back and come pick this up
Barbearex
Looks like the stuff they had to dig up in the movie Holes
Mammoth_State3144
Looks like mine. I can confirm its garbage
Early-Pudding7227
It cost so much because they had to fly it in from the iraq desert , make sure to check for mines
jrunner02
Looks more like fill dirt than topsoil
yomotha
I just got “top soil” as well and it looked pretty similar. $30 cdn/yard. I’ve been picking rocks out as I water. In hindsight, I wonder if I should have opted for garden soil instead, although not sure how that would have looked either.
shadowedradiance
yeah so what is going to happen is your grass wont’ really grow in there. i had top soil like that and it basically had a really bad ph and got compacted just from basic weather.rain
i bit the bullet and just get scotts premium top soil and feed a friend with a truck. get a pallet load and a gorilla cart. it’s way easier than shovel/wheel barrel and dealing with a pile of 3 yards that is not packaged. just get a 50 gal 3mm plastic trash bag for cleanup
Impossible_Stop_2686
I was accidentally delivered fill dirt when I was leveling around Labor Day. I sent them an email with pictures and a video of the giant and small clay balls that I couldn’t bust up with hoe. I got an email back saying it was an accident (fill dirt). They picked it up with a giant claw truck and delivered me the proper screened topsoil.
The problem is that is top soil which is not meant for overseeding. What you wanted was a top dress mix for overseeding specifically.
VtotheJ
Whaaaaat is that?!
zonerf1
These days no matter where I go landscape supply quality has gone way down. It’s a crap shoot regardless of whether it’s bagged soil products or bulk supply yard products. I just look for good quality compost and top soil that isn’t full of too many rocks or clay. I just use a landscape rake to scrape all the larger debris when I’m finished with something like a leveling project or over seeding
cubano32
1. Did you actually visit the place and see the topsoil in person before purchasing?
2. I would 100% call and tell them to pick that crap back up because you won’t be able to do anything with that.
I would call around and find a place you can visit and see it in person so you can make your decision that way.
Im lucky enough here local landscape place by me has like 5 different soil mixes and they let you take a small 2gal bucket home with you to see how you like how it spreads over your lawn.
NoChandeliers
Yes
jls141
See my previous posts. This is what mine looked like and I’m having a hard time getting grass to grow. Maybe it will eventually but not like a lot of the other pictures I’m seeing people post that is full and lush after 2 weeks
rybotsky
“Soil”
thatbrofoshow
I stressed about my topsoil last year. Had a bunch of small rocks like yours. My reno turned out great… I’m sure it will be fine
Conquest23
I just had this happen to me and it’s so frustrating. I built a homemade sifter to put over my wheelbarrow and lined my compost spreader with 1/4 inch hardware cloth which is working well. But it’s become so much more work than it should have been. My big box store bagged soil isn’t great but at least that’s just mostly mulch. It’s the rocks that’s are the massive annoyance. Lessoned learned, I will never purchase based on reviews if my own eyes haven’t seen it first.
Tiny-Dragonfruit8133
Looks like your ordered blended topsoil. All topsoil is going to have pebbles and the woody pieces will break down. This soil will work fine for grass.
lord_hyumungus
Yeah I’m gonna go with a no on that. Looks more like clean fill. I expect topsoil to be like black muck when it’s wet.
Always sucks when you get shafted by a reputable company. I learned a similar lesson buying a few pallets of Bahia sod from a reputable local seller. Turns out they only cared about customers with big orders like 18 pallet orders (mostly builders). The shit I got looked like it came out of a nuclear waste facility.
Just take really good pics of the poor quality dirt and ask them if they’ll refund you. If they don’t then you can leave a permanent land mine with those pics in a negative review on google and wherever else that will follow them forever. It will cost them more than you in the long term.
Sometimes those big companies are just looking to offload their crap onto homeowners and unsuspecting customers.
SomeComparison
Soil isn’t bad, but that isn’t screened.
coachjonno
That’s not top soil, that’s former city dirty lot soil.
1sh0t1b33r
It’s not great, but know there are different top soils and different screen sizes and different qualities. Premium top soil and compost mix would be best.
cutty84
That’s fill dirt. If you went with the cheapest option sight unseen, it’s on you. You need a premium lawn soil blend for top dressing
Kproper
This same crap happened to me. Total crap soil filled with roots and tons of smallish, and no so small stone. Aggravating as hell.
Bobbiduke
I never buy screened top soil and I hardly get a rock. This is shit
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What did they screen it with, gridmesh?
Looks like cement…
Yea screened with chain link fence.. send that crap back.
Very aggravating because I need to seed this weekend ☹️ Hopefully they will give me my money back and come pick this up
Looks like the stuff they had to dig up in the movie Holes
Looks like mine. I can confirm its garbage
It cost so much because they had to fly it in from the iraq desert , make sure to check for mines
Looks more like fill dirt than topsoil
I just got “top soil” as well and it looked pretty similar. $30 cdn/yard. I’ve been picking rocks out as I water. In hindsight, I wonder if I should have opted for garden soil instead, although not sure how that would have looked either.
yeah so what is going to happen is your grass wont’ really grow in there. i had top soil like that and it basically had a really bad ph and got compacted just from basic weather.rain
i bit the bullet and just get scotts premium top soil and feed a friend with a truck. get a pallet load and a gorilla cart. it’s way easier than shovel/wheel barrel and dealing with a pile of 3 yards that is not packaged. just get a 50 gal 3mm plastic trash bag for cleanup
I was accidentally delivered fill dirt when I was leveling around Labor Day. I sent them an email with pictures and a video of the giant and small clay balls that I couldn’t bust up with hoe. I got an email back saying it was an accident (fill dirt). They picked it up with a giant claw truck and delivered me the proper screened topsoil.
https://preview.redd.it/i3u1mz8cptof1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb693d7592457653b14a033dd90139ffc816afc5
Those rocks won’t help at all☹️
Economy Top soil ask for Premium
The problem is that is top soil which is not meant for overseeding. What you wanted was a top dress mix for overseeding specifically.
Whaaaaat is that?!
These days no matter where I go landscape supply quality has gone way down. It’s a crap shoot regardless of whether it’s bagged soil products or bulk supply yard products. I just look for good quality compost and top soil that isn’t full of too many rocks or clay. I just use a landscape rake to scrape all the larger debris when I’m finished with something like a leveling project or over seeding
1. Did you actually visit the place and see the topsoil in person before purchasing?
2. I would 100% call and tell them to pick that crap back up because you won’t be able to do anything with that.
I would call around and find a place you can visit and see it in person so you can make your decision that way.
Im lucky enough here local landscape place by me has like 5 different soil mixes and they let you take a small 2gal bucket home with you to see how you like how it spreads over your lawn.
Yes
See my previous posts. This is what mine looked like and I’m having a hard time getting grass to grow. Maybe it will eventually but not like a lot of the other pictures I’m seeing people post that is full and lush after 2 weeks
“Soil”
I stressed about my topsoil last year. Had a bunch of small rocks like yours. My reno turned out great… I’m sure it will be fine
I just had this happen to me and it’s so frustrating. I built a homemade sifter to put over my wheelbarrow and lined my compost spreader with 1/4 inch hardware cloth which is working well. But it’s become so much more work than it should have been. My big box store bagged soil isn’t great but at least that’s just mostly mulch. It’s the rocks that’s are the massive annoyance. Lessoned learned, I will never purchase based on reviews if my own eyes haven’t seen it first.
Looks like your ordered blended topsoil. All topsoil is going to have pebbles and the woody pieces will break down. This soil will work fine for grass.
Yeah I’m gonna go with a no on that. Looks more like clean fill. I expect topsoil to be like black muck when it’s wet.
Always sucks when you get shafted by a reputable company. I learned a similar lesson buying a few pallets of Bahia sod from a reputable local seller. Turns out they only cared about customers with big orders like 18 pallet orders (mostly builders). The shit I got looked like it came out of a nuclear waste facility.
Just take really good pics of the poor quality dirt and ask them if they’ll refund you. If they don’t then you can leave a permanent land mine with those pics in a negative review on google and wherever else that will follow them forever. It will cost them more than you in the long term.
Sometimes those big companies are just looking to offload their crap onto homeowners and unsuspecting customers.
Soil isn’t bad, but that isn’t screened.
That’s not top soil, that’s former city dirty lot soil.
It’s not great, but know there are different top soils and different screen sizes and different qualities. Premium top soil and compost mix would be best.
That’s fill dirt. If you went with the cheapest option sight unseen, it’s on you. You need a premium lawn soil blend for top dressing
This same crap happened to me. Total crap soil filled with roots and tons of smallish, and no so small stone. Aggravating as hell.
I never buy screened top soil and I hardly get a rock. This is shit