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Exactly. When I resodded our front lawn I kept finding building materials. I guess it's common for construction workers to bury the trash when building a house rather than dispose of it correctly.
Every time I dig on my land I get two maybe three inches of topsoil and then the hardest goddamn clay I've ever encountered
Unfortunately you may need someone with a disc harrow or tiller to help the first time. It's not preferred but I've no other ideas. Maybe Solar Punk does?
Which I would totally do if I had more than a 1/4 acre, most of which is taken up with a house and other structures. Getting a tractor and harrow out here for an 800 sq ft garden doesn't make sense. I'll probably do raised beds this year.
I can't wait until I can move back to the country. The suburbs are the absolute worst.
Straw bale gardening sounds nifty, too. I'd try it if the previous owners of my place hadn't already put in a couple of raised beds.
Alternate take, fix your 1/4 acre the natural way if you’re gonna be there a while.
Start a compost pile.
Aerate, plant clover, spread compost every year, plant a native tree or two and native plants underneath.
No need to till, just slowly amend.
I’m not planning on being here in four years so it doesn’t make sense to do anything that would make the house look “weird” and make it harder to sell.
My guy you’re complaining about a problem you’re part of the cause of then.
Trees are weird? A healthy lawn is weird?
Why complain if you have the environment you want 🤷
Because I want to make as much of a profit on this house as possible so I can move somewhere I can see the stars again
You're assuming that I want to stay in the suburbs when the least of my complaints is the lack of topsoil
Cool.
You complained about your yard being the way it is, it is the way it is because people don’t care enough to do differently. It’s not hard to fix it, compost is “free” and throwing some seeds down is very little work. Trees aren’t super expensive bought young and add value.
I assumed friendly advice on how to improve the conditions you were complaining about for relatively little effort would be beneficial, but here we are. Take care my dude.
And if I was planning on staying in a noisy, crowded suburb my entire life it would be appreciated. But I'm not, and most people don't care about this so spending my money redoing my bathrooms will have a better ROI so I can fuck off to a place where I'd gladly plant trees and spread wildflower seeds.
Also, it solves the least of my problems with this place. Now, if you told me to take a BB gun to all the streetlights causing light pollution then we'd be in business.
You should take a BB gun to all the streetlights.
Now we're talking
I mean paying someone to borrow their/ till may be less expensive? That said, I like raised bed too. Easier to manage. Right now I'm looking at permaculture but not sure if I'm cut out for it.