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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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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?