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Jennie Little wrote:Another thread Reminded me of this: Our veg garden is atop the old lawn. The lawn is atop the ? Tons of sand which are our septic field. The septic field is unmapped because it got lost on the previous owners, so we can’t just dig up the lawn, we don’t know where the pieces of the septic field are. . I can’t move the garden.
I have raised beds because I can’t grow a root crop without them. All the nutrients leach out in about 3 years. Mind you, when we got here, the actual soil atop the sand lookEd like a thin chocolate glaze. There’s actual soil there now, about 3” or so.....
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