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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?