free topsoil

[scottishjohn]

always the same 

when you looking for it -you can,t find it and its crap or it costs a fortune 

 I got the other small problem 

100cum+ of topsoil -

the forest rubbish that has settled on my road over the last 50years 

its like black gold 

 

yes i can move it and dump it in the quarry --but what a waste

 need someone who needs it and will come and scrap the road and take it away --road is tarmac underneath 

 the down side of not being close to a city 

 

[joe90]

Completely agree, I need it, can scrape it with my JCB but I am the wrong end of the country ? bugger

[Big Jimbo]

59 minutes ago, joe90 said:

Completely agree, I need it, can scrape it with my JCB but I am the wrong end of the country ? bugger

I need it to, but i only have a mini digger, no a ruddy great big JCB. However, not as far as Joe, but still too far.

[Ferdinand]

That's nearly 5k worth of topsoil at retail and delivered prices...

[vivienz]

1 hour ago, joe90 said:

Completely agree, I need it, can scrape it with my JCB but I am the wrong end of the country ? bugger

 

Same here!

[scottishjohn]

3 hours ago, Ferdinand said:

That's nearly 5k worth of topsoil at retail and delivered prices...

and i warranty it will never be as good as this stuff--black as coal 

[SteamyTea]

20 hours ago, scottishjohn said:

will never be as good as this stuff--black as coal 

I don't understand soil (even though my ResM was in agriculture), but is colour a good indicator of quality?

[ProDave]

That just sounds like peat to me?

[SteamyTea]

Seems black soul has a lot of manganese in it.

I have no idea if that is good or bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_color

[scottishjohn]

black is high organic matter.which is what you want to grow things

 it would become peat in 1000years+ if it was permanently wet and then it would be brown  not black 

you could probably mix it up to 50% with sand and it would still be very good soil and free draining 

[SteamyTea]

Seems there are health problems with high manganese intakes.

But as I said, I know little of this. Cornwall has dreadful soil except a few small pockets of land.

Does have rain and light though. And warm temperatures.

Edited February 4, 2020 by SteamyTea

[joe90]

It’s basically leaf mould, which is very good for the garden, I used to make it by collecting leafs in a black plastic bag and leave fir a year .