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Huge mound of topsoil

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namechange2222 · 01/02/2018 08:04

I had a long path through the garden created last Autumn. The builders piled the soil up at the top of the garden. This is the area I want to use for growing some vegetables in apple crates
What can people advise please? I look at the huge mound daily ( and cry a bit!) and wonder if I'd have the energy to dig it up and dump further up in the trees or use with compost in the crates. Obviously it's also covered in weeds so I guess if I'm using it I'd need to weed first. I'm keen to get going on the vegetable crates but cant start until I can place them where the soil currently is as they'd be too heave to move once full. God, decisions decisions!
A friend had a look and declared it was too big a job and he'd just grass over the mounds and make them a sort of hilly feature but that won't leave me with enough room for the crates. I'll take a photo and send it from my phone but would be so eternally grateful if anyone here could advise please

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CrabappleBiscuit · 01/02/2018 08:10

Options

  1. advertise it as top soil and see if anyone wants to collect

  2. use as soil improver by spreading over other beds or in trees (don’t put right round trunks or they might rot)

  3. terrace it and put crates on the terraces.

  4. I’d terrace it and plant fruit trees directly into it and use somewhere else for vegetables.

Get someone in to flatten it.
4) I think I’d terrace it and plant directly into it. Fruit

CrabappleBiscuit · 01/02/2018 08:11

Flatten and plant veg straight into it.

namechange2222 · 01/02/2018 08:13

My phone playing up for the moment Crab so will post a photo as soon as I'm able. Many thanks for your thoughts. How would I flatten the mounds? I hadn't thought about advertising the topsoil what a brilliant idea

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Flabbermingo · 01/02/2018 08:17

Digger and a skip. That's how we sorted ours.

namechange2222 · 01/02/2018 09:57

Photos

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