In today's paper there was a nice article about a featured garden in Springfield. The homeowner's son said he used the "soil left over" from the ponds he dug in the rear of the house, to make raised beds for his mother so she could garden more easily. Very noble thing, indeed.
However, this does NOT work in my area, ony about 15-20 miles south of this person. When we "dug out" for our pond, the only soil we had left over was in the form of large rocks! And those rocks were not the nice flat rocks everyone wants to edge their ponds with. They were all shapes and sizes, some being split in two while we were attempting to get them out of the way of the liner we chose.
Amazing what a few miles and millions of years of the earth changing it's appearance can do to a gardener's dreams, and the veritable shape of his or her garden!
However, this does NOT work in my area, ony about 15-20 miles south of this person. When we "dug out" for our pond, the only soil we had left over was in the form of large rocks! And those rocks were not the nice flat rocks everyone wants to edge their ponds with. They were all shapes and sizes, some being split in two while we were attempting to get them out of the way of the liner we chose.
Amazing what a few miles and millions of years of the earth changing it's appearance can do to a gardener's dreams, and the veritable shape of his or her garden!
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