My back garden is mostly builder's rubble!

[BooseysMom]

We have a new-build house and the back garden is standard turf but I noticed that when digging a hole to transfer a rose, there was about a spade's length of clay top soil and underneath was builder's rubble, concrete and stones. I dug out as much as i could but it just goes down and down and now we can see why there is a big bank at the far end of the garden where once it used to be flat.

I don't think the worms will get through the rubble and the roots of plants will have to grow horizontally. I'd love to get a digger and remove the lot. Bar doing this, is there anything else i can do?

Thanks x

Bar doing this, is there anything else i can do? Not worry too much, just see how it goes? A lot of roots don't actually go down that far. I have about a spade depths before hitting solid clay - I mean modelling-quality clay, not just clay-ey soil - and it doesn't seem to trouble anything. AT least your soil won't get waterlogged

@MereDintofPandiculation.. thank you. I notice you are always lovely, replying to my threads, so thank you for taking the time That's a good point about the draining. It does get waterlogged at the bottom as it's on a slope but all the rain we've had has drained away at the top so yes that's a positive right there!

I would also see how it goes, lots of organic matter and a bit of luck and you should be fine. My friend moved in to a new build 4 years ago. She had the same rubble but hers sounded worse than you described she had lots of plastic in hers. She now has a fabulous garden and didn't do anything drastic to the ground. Good luck

boosey Thanks

Maybe some raised beds so you bring the soil level up a little?

@Tumbleweed101...thank you. That's a good idea