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Restoring soil after removing concrete
Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 3.21 PM
Hi, We have recently bought a house - both front and back gardens had sadly been completely concreted over with very thick concrete. We imagine it has been like this for the last 30 or so years. How do we go about restoring this soil so that we can start to grow plants/possibly some vegetables too? Thank you Hi everyone, Thanks so much for all your responses, really helpful and very appreciated!
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Acko & Son Decorations
Rating: 5 out of 5
Probably the best way would be to build raised beds with railway sleepers for planting and put down fake grass to get a instsant green lawn. This would also be low maintenance.
Answered28 March 2021
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Anonymous user
Hi I would get a mini digger in with a jack hammer attachment break the concrete up then use the mini digger to scoop the concrete up and place into skips until its all gone. Then bring in 800 kilo bags of top soil using the mimi digger to lay the soil out.
Answered28 March 2021
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WH Gardening and Landscape Services
Rating: 5 out of 5
Hi there. Once the concrete has been removed you will need to rotavate the soil to relieve compaction. I would also advise adding some soil improver (available in bulk bags) and rotavating that in as well. Remove all stones and any roots found. This would certainly be a good start depending on the quality of the soil underneath the concrete. If the soil is in really poor condition to start with you will probably be better off digging most of it out amd introducing some new top soil. Cheers
Answered28 March 2021
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Rightscape
Rating: 5 out of 5
I would recommend rotavating the soil to loosen it up and add an additive “improver” abs then top soil and turf/ plant what you like.
Answered28 March 2021
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