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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.
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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?