Nevertheless tigerland1 is correct, this should not be labeled topsoil. It's suitable as soil conditioner, or maybe potting mix, but from the description, it's not soil. You should call them and complain. I always advise people to find a torn bag (or accidentally make a finger sized hole if you have to), and get a look at the contents of any bagged product before buying. The cheaper it is, the more important this becomes.

Webster's defines "Top Soil" as that soil on the top 4 inches of the earth. If you were to come here and take the top "soil" from this area you would get nothing but sand although at my sisters (about 6 miles west) you would get a brown clay. Some places you would get a grayish colored clay while some others you would get a reddish or black clay. In the Southwest the "Top Soil" could be miced with some organic matter to make adobe bricks. The term "Top Soil" is meaningless. What most people think of, and want, when talking about "Top Soil" is loam and there simply is not enough of that around to fill the need. One of the places around here that used to sell "Top Soil" no longer does and instead sells soil. This is sand mixed with about 8 percent organic matter (dredged from the bottom of an inland lake) and enough lime so that Michigan State University's soil test lab will get a pH of 7.0. Another place that sells "Top Soil" around here mixes their own according to a "secret" recipe and in testing this "soil" I find cigarette butts and pieces of disposable diapers as well as other trash mixed in. Another place that sells "Top Soil" mixes leaf mold with our generic sand, so the soil looks quite rich until the rain washes the organic matter out of the mix and what is left is sand. Do not waste your money trying to buy sometihng called "Top Soil" since all you need to do to get good soil at your home is add organic matter to the soil you have, and for most of use that organic matter is freely available.

I'm interested in topsoil as well - midtown memphis here... anywhere close that can deliver a small truckload? I don't need tons, but more than bags at a local garden center... I want to do container gardens and flower beds and 2 small ornamental trees and one shrub size Filbert. =)

Let's start with, scott's brand top soil is not soil. It is composted wood products. It will continue to compost and decompose after you spread it out, Rake It Smooth and grow grass in it. Eventually it will decompose completely and disappear. If you are concerned about having a smooth surface with no bumps in your lawn, what is far more critical is that the real soil under your fake top soil is smooth and with out lumps or depressions. If you don't have the real soil smoothed out, Scott's is not some miracle of smooth in a bag.