Eco Mulch & Sod

I bought 2 5 gal buckets of what I thought was garden soil which was said to be double sifted. It was pretty much buckets of sticks with some dirt and a funky smell 😖 Smelled like asphalt and it was sticky. Haven't used it yet because I'm afraid of what it might do to my plants 😕

Their driver swerved into my lane without warning, putting my son and me in extreme jeopardy on I45. Company wouldn’t even entertain the notion that they needed to chastise their careless driver.

We have been using Eco for years but today took there amazing service to a whole other level. A BIG THANK YOU TO Sylvester in mechanics for being our hero. Two chics, + 1500 pds of decomposed granite = disaster. We went and asked to borrow a tool...without even thinking, Sylvester and his helper were changing our tire. Not only changing our tire, but super sweet. We will be forever grateful 🙏 So if you see this man in the picture when visiting Eco, please give his a high five and tell him "Their are good people in this world and thank you!!!!"

Okay so here's where I am at, but part of this is my fault because I suppose Im not a good consumer first. But I went inside to the counter and made sure I asked questions and tried my best to tell the ladies there what I was using this for. Specifically to fill raised garden beds/ bags that we use to rotate crops in our small scale farming. I asked for a recommendation since I was not familiar with there products (were from outside the Shreveport Area). The young lady who was incredibly nice recommended Grade A for my uses and I followed her recommendation accordingly. Now we've been back and used about 8, 5 gallon buckets out of the "two scoops" we purchased and I'm not very happy currently. The consistency of the Grade A is more of a sludge/clay mix of much larger sticks, branches, and a few small peices of plastic/other then organic debris, so far about 3 rocks, before putting it in the bags, I ran a small tiller through my full wheelbarrow, and ammended with 5 gallons of Horti Perlite to help it with breaking up the larger clumps I don't know which applications this is normally recommended for, but I use alot of compost in my work, we plant and rotate 55,000 sq ft, and two greenhouses but this has a very different consistency. What makes me more disappointed is that on there website they say there is a Garden Mix.... which I was not recommended even though it sounds like it would be more appropriate for my needs and should have more closely aligned with my request, but that wasn't what was recommended to me. At the moment I'm not sure what I will do with the rest of this, because I don't have a sifter to sift at the scale that this would need for me to fill more of my beds, but as a test I'm going to plant the three bags I filled to see how plants do with them. I'm unhappy with the product I left with, mad at myself for not just checking online, but I will say this the people working today we're very kind and courteous, the gentleman who loaded us did it quickly and efficiently, and they do have a military discount which we always appreiciate from any buisness expecially a local one. I'll update with pictures just so you can get an idea of what I bought. I just want to be clear i dont think this is a reflection of bad buisness practices just an oppurtunity to educate employees about the various intended uses of what they sell, especially for intended food production.

As a business owner there are principles you stand behind to make a customer feel welcomed. The owner of Eco, was very nasty to me while I was looking to use their service. Without greeting and automatically saying, “I don’t want that load” with a nasty gesture is the reason business owners aren’t liked by many. The point to drive home is as a business owner you treat customers with respect when it’s respect that’s given. Never using their service again nor will I recommend anyone else to!