My husband and I have zero experience with gardening and would love some advice from those of you who know more… This is our first spring with a backyard. The previous owners took the backyard from a neglected pile of rubbish to something kind of decent. They put a nice brick walkway around the outside of the garden and put in a fence. But, in the middle of this walkway, there is a rectangle of dirt filled with rocks and glass shards and cigarette butts and other assorted goodies. We’d ideally like to see grass in this area – something very kid friendly. <\/p>\n
We’ve spent 3 weekends trying top pick through the soil and clean it up, but it there just always seems to be more junk in it. At this point we feel like we need some way to just get rid of all the dirt and bring in fresh soil. Does this sound like the solution? If so, how do we actually go about doing it logistically? What do we use to dig it out, how do dispose of the junky soil, where do we get fresh soil, and how do we get that to the backyard?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My husband and I have zero experience with gardening and would love some advice from those of you who know more… This is our first spring with a backyard. The previous owners took the backyard from a neglected pile of rubbish to something kind of decent. They put a nice brick walkway around the outside…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-30871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/04\/backyard-soil-c\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Backyard Soil Clean-up","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/04\/backyard-soil-c\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/04\/backyard-soil-c\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Garden","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ppwgall"}],"creator":["ppwgall"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-04-14T15:42:34Z","datePublished":"2009-04-14T15:42:34Z","dateModified":"2009-04-14T15:42:34Z"},"rendered":"