Red Barn Farm advertises itself as being 30 years in the landscape business for home and business, and try to portray an image of being available to back up their product.
Oh Yeah??
Oh my God!! This place is Amateur hour!!
My experience with Red Barn was expensive and ultimately disappointing.
Briefly, I decided to re-sow my entire lawn in the spring. I completely killed the old lawn with Round-up. So far everything was a success. My plan was simple, 2/3 inches of good top soil, good seed, good straw, plenty of water, it's fool proof!?!
Yeah right!!
What Red Barn Sold me was 40 yards of top soil at $40 a yard plus delivery($120 as it came in 3 loads) 50 lb of grass seed (almost $100) and 7 bales of straw at approx $35 each..
What grew was nothing but weeds. I repeatedly called , and nothing from them. They told me the owner would call me back.. And still nothing..
They said he's very busy and leaves at 5:30 every morning??
Eventually I decide to go to Red Barn one morning to speak to the owner whose name I was told was Mark. I waited from 5:30 am and he eventually showed up at 7:00am. I showed him the photos of my lawn an brought him a bunch of the weeds that had infested my entire lawn. He said it's just 'Pig Weed' and I should mow it and it would go away. Well I didn't think I was buying a crop of pig weed, but I mowed it and mowed it, now my lawn is full of weeds, crab grass and bare patches and a few patches of grass.
I wasted my money, my time and missed the entire spring growing season, through trusting Red Barns product. Either their Top Soil, Seed or straw was contaminated or hadn't been screened. I'm going to have to redo the entire project in the fall.
Buyer beware!!! In this country were protected by consumer laws, we can return defective purchases. It's difficult to return 40 yards of top soil.
I was very disappointed that Red Barn gave me such a run around when they realized there was an issue.
I thought I was doing a good thing by shopping local, as I always try to do. Big mistake in this case. My next big project or anything else for that matter I'm going to Adams or Home Depot. At least they stand over their product. read more