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ChasnotRobert
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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