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

NancyGroutsis wrote:
neeshera, the photo of the pulverized soil you just posted is very different than the soil in your raised bed. I copied the images and placed them side by side so you can see the difference. The top image is your raised bed soil and it's gray and filled with stones. The entire top of the soil is covered with gray rocks.


The bottom image of pulverized soil is a rich brown color and the tiny clods on top of the soil look like clay. I checked the internet and all the images of pulverized soil look the same:

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Notice how crushed stone looks gray:

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I'm sad to say you were conned. Your receipt says pulverized top soil, but you were given a mix consisting of at least 50% stone by the looks of it. Perhaps you want to let bygones be bygones but if this happened to me I would show the pictures to the gardener and prove to them that they did not give me gardening loam, but cheap stone soil that most gardeners think is the worst soil of all: difficult to work with, low in nutrients, and can't hold much water. The nursery was right that pulverized soil is okay to garden with but if you brought them a bag of your raised bed soil and they can see it's half full of rocks I'm sure they would blame the gardener. - NG