Stones and rubbish

[Good Gourd2]

Up untill this year our plot has been all fine and crumbly. for the 4years we have had it.  This year I notice its all stones and bits of rubbish ( bits of plastic, bones, metal and all sorts of rubbish) The muck that we had delivered seemed fine so I can`t say it came in that. It is so awfull that to  plant small seeds etc I am having to make a channel and put compost into it, which I  suppose is no bad thing. Could anyone suggest where its coming from, the land has been allotments for years.

[Good Gourd2]

[isbister]

Alan Titchmarsh once said there's no point in going to great lengths clearing stones from your land as they always come back. Must say I've found this to be the case...

[Robert_Brenchley]

Unless you want them for something. On my site, they're useful for filling holes in the lane.

[Gillysdad]

Alan Titchmarsh once said there's no point in going to great lengths clearing stones from your land as they always come back. Must say I've found this to be the case...

I've been picking stones and bits of clay pipe out of my allotment for 30 years..found I can't stop doing it now. ;D ;D

[saddad]

or glass....
:-\

[pye]

I just dug a whole brick out of a bed which I thought I'd dug really thoroughly last year. :o ;D

[Palustris]

The actions of worms and gardeners bring the detritus to the surface. Rain washes the finer material down and leaves the bigger stuff on the surface.
If it is new looking material, are you sure someone is not sumoping it on your plot when you are not there?
And before you go too mad, we worked out that over the last 12 years we have removed over 30 tons of unwanted stuff from this 2/3 of an acre garden.  We still have to wear gloves to garden becaus of the danger from broken glass.

[tim]

Well worth it, wasn't it, Eric?

We came across the base of a dry stone wall! Amongst other truck loads.

Fortunately, we had an old cesspit which is now full.

[Deb P]

I think someone buried an entire bathroom suite on my plot!

I have dug up umpteen broken bathroom tiles, taps, knives and forks (!), and the other day a bag full of old plastic medicine bottles!

[saddad]

You can't have had the entire Suite Debs as I had a toilet in my top plot... sledgehammered into small razor sharp fragments.. isn't glazed porcelain something else!
;D