Topic: Rocks in garden soil.

[grannyjanny]

Last year we took up a flower bed to grow veg. It was dug over several times. When we came to dig it this time round we found a huge rock & several house bricks. They could have been missed last year but I doubt it as OH is very thorough or do they come up through the bowels of the earth.

[tonybloke]

large items find their way to the top, just as the big bits do in a meusli packet!!
(the small particles find their way down, really, but it has the same effect)
 ;)

[landimad]

I always thought it was worms moving the soil out the way, taking dead materials down and the hard stuff came up.
Thats what I was told when I were a lad, still believe it to be true.
Silly old fool I am.

[tomatoada]

That would explain to me why 8 years after moving into a new house and having 2 feet of clay, builders rubble etc.  removed and replaced with lorry loads of soil I still have bits of cement, bricks and other rubbish appearing in my flower borders.

[PurpleHeather]

That is a good question and I am sure that it is true that 'things' do rise up. In fact some archaelogical finds have been made as a result of this sort of 'movement'.

Fascinating isn't it?