How do you go from red clay to rich soil?
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 2:55 am
We hired a general contractor to oversee the building of our house. He abandoned us midstream. My wife, having the packed head that she does coupled with her love of projects stepped up to the plate and pulled it out. Having never built a house before, the work she did was truly impressive. Having never built a house before, there were things that happened that she couldn't have foreseen.
One of the things that happened was that the dozer operator was supposed to scrape off the top soil, pile it up, do the required foundational dirt work and once the house was complete, redistribute the top soil into the yard.
Bastage pushed it all down a gully.
Now, a large portion of the yard which was virgin soil is red clay.
There are a couple of known options:
- buy new top soil and have it trucked in
- something else
That second option is the more attractive of the two at the moment.
Here's the current idea - Take the trailer to Pop's cow pasture, harvest every cow pie not too fresh to oooooze through our fingers, pulverize with shovels, scatter over the entirety of the yard where the top soil was scraped off.
Before I work myself harder than a rented mule, is there anyone that already knows that I'm embarking on a venture destined to be no more productive than the type of farmer that rents mules?
Are there any other options?
One of the things that happened was that the dozer operator was supposed to scrape off the top soil, pile it up, do the required foundational dirt work and once the house was complete, redistribute the top soil into the yard.
Bastage pushed it all down a gully.
Now, a large portion of the yard which was virgin soil is red clay.
There are a couple of known options:
- buy new top soil and have it trucked in
- something else
That second option is the more attractive of the two at the moment.
Here's the current idea - Take the trailer to Pop's cow pasture, harvest every cow pie not too fresh to oooooze through our fingers, pulverize with shovels, scatter over the entirety of the yard where the top soil was scraped off.
Before I work myself harder than a rented mule, is there anyone that already knows that I'm embarking on a venture destined to be no more productive than the type of farmer that rents mules?
Are there any other options?