OSBORNE NURSERY & LANDSCAPING

I am posting this in the hope that it will help someone else avoid getting ripped off by Osborne Nursery in Plainville, MA as they totally misrepresent what they are selling. I needed to overseed several areas of my lawn so I ordered several yards of what was advertised on the Osborne Nursery website as screened loam. However, I am not exaggerating in the least when I state that what they delivered was the furthest thing from loam that I have ever seen, and it was completely unusable for growing grass. Even people who do not work in the nursery business know that loam is distinguished by its mix of organic matter, sand, and clay which make for a very fertile soil with qualities that are very beneficial for growing plants and grass - those qualities include its ability to retain water and nutrients as well as the ability to allow water to flow freely, preventing erosion and other damaging issues which may result from over-watering or bad weather. What Osborne Nursery is passing off as loam is the poorest quality dirt - so dense that it is hard to get a shovel into, and it is also loaded with small stones as though it might have come from a gravel pit. I tried raking out the stones from some of it to see if it might then be usable (what an ordeal) but it was so dense and infertile that nothing would grow in it except weeds. It is simply appalling and completely unethical that they are selling that stuff as “loam”, and I am sure that it cost them next to nothing for this stuff. As I cannot use it on my lawn or for anything else, I am just going to haul it into the woods behind my house and dump it. What a scam.