Beginner Gardening: Newbie vegetable gardener needs reassurance about soil, 1 by neeshera

neeshera wrote:
DoGooder, you really are a do gooder.You have provided such valuable information.

Here's the whole story to this issue. The guy who does my regular lawn moving - the mow and blow guy, the 'landscaper' - charged me $550 to create this 47 ft long x 3 ft wide x 6" deep raised vegetable bed. This included digging, putting lumber around, nailing everything and adding soil. The soil he brought the first time around had better texture than the one I have now but was full of glass pieces. He refused to take responsibility for that but agreed to give me a credit of $240 for the soil and would charge me the same amount for buying new soil and delivering and installing it. So it was like an equal exchange. The receipt shows $ 40.35 for "Bulk, Top Soil Pulverised" and $59.25 for "Bulk, Mulch blended organic bark". So it comes out to be $100 for the soil and $140 for delivery and labor.

I feel quite let down by the landscaper as well as the nursery, but what is done is done. I did some image search on google for what pulverised top soil is supposed to look like and here's an image of one that looks very similar to what I have. The company descibes it this way: "This soil is a screened material, usually very fine which provides a rich enhancement for planting, top dressing for seeding and sodding."