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Absolutely ridiculous amount of broken ceramic and glass in my garden. The strange thing is that it spans a wide amount of time - some of it is pre-30s (house built late 20s) but plenty is more recent too. Too much to be accidental. I have less rubble than that so there's plenty of soil left. Making beds just dig up and sieve. I'm prone to doing things piecemeal, so mostly I just pick it out as and when...
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Yep,
mine was more the waste from solid fuel burning. Why it wasn't just put in the dustbin is beyond me. Also a couple of caches of broken glass, as if a hole had been dug to hold an entire (domestic) broken window. I sieved the soil, retained the rounded pebbles for use as stone mulch in pots. Smaller stones were used to toughen the paths between raised beds. Luckily this was some time ago when the local authority recycling centre still took hard core so all the unusable stuff was disposed of free of charge. -
suppose I'm going to need to dig trenches and remove all this right and backfill with a bulk load of topsoil?
Anyone else done this?
Yea I've done this before; our backyard used to be 90% debris, with a bit of exhausted soil and some weeds on top. Now it's a little rainforest.
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We removed the top 30cm of an area of about 20m².
We threw away all the rubbish and kept the stones, basically, used them as drainage later.
We got some cubic metres of dung from a local petting zoo, mixed this with a bit of the old soil and a lot of newly bought proper organic all-purpose soil, also a bit of special soils in some areas (for tomatoes, for example). Also about 100KG of organic cat litter, as a friend of mine insisted this would be absolutely necessary.tl;dr - it was a shit load of work, but it was really really worth it!
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So I removed two Leylandii from the front garden a few weeks back. I didn't really like them and they crowded the path.
Anyway I want to create a bed with plants parallel to the path. I planted the first plant yesterday but in the process of digging the hole and planting, removed all of this rubble (stones / china/ glass etc) in the process. Felt like my own version of time team. No wonder the lawn is lacklustre. I guess in the 30's when the property was built, a very limited amount of topsoil was put directly on top of this to level everything off.
Anyway, I'd like to have a nice lawn and garden out the front. To get serious about it, suppose I'm going to need to dig trenches and remove all this right and backfill with a bulk load of topsoil?
Anyone else done this?
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