Because no one wants to be outdone by someone else's opinion of what constitutes high-end.
I was >< close to getting me some
Are YOU a Tootle Puffer??
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I was >< close to getting me some
I think this must be one of the benefits of GA's hard-packed clay, gophers and moles really aren't found much around here, if at all. Of course, if you want to actually grow anything, you have to add an equal amount of organic material to make the soil soft enough to do ANYTHING with. Trying to dig out hard-pan mixed with gravel (with a mattock!), I gave myself a shoulder injury that never healed right, and still hurts every day, 15 yrs later.
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Well shoot! My "high end" dropped many years ago. 
I'm just happy I can tootle puff with the equipment I have.
I'm just happy I can tootle puff with the equipment I have. 
About 5 miles across the state line in AL, I have more than a foot of topsoil. My last house 8 mi from here in GA, I had maybe 3 inches
Is that High End topsoil?About 5 miles across the state line in AL, I have more than a foot of topsoil. My last house 8 mi from here in GA, I had maybe 3 inches
Up in the mountains in Chattanooga and chert is what you get. Looks like cement and packs down like it. The mattock is used to dig a pot in the rocky soil to fill with store bought soil and plant. On the plus side, we don't have to go far to find free stone to edge islands and walkways.
On the plus side, we don't have to go far to find free stone to edge islands and walkways. Give it a min & it just may well be!
Up in the mountains in Chattanooga and chert is what you get. Looks like cement and packs down like it. The mattock is used to dig a pot in the rocky soil to fill with store bought soil and plant.
Here it's more like, someone submerged a brick wall, and you're trying to dig INTO it. Bring on the mattocks! Ditto about using a mattock to dig holes into the soil which can then be filled with actual "growing stuff" soil. I did that with my front border, for my roses.
Haven't done much of anything to it in a couple years.. though I did prune the roses earlier this year, so now they're covered in blooms.
Andria
Ahh that red dirt from the south. I live in slate rock country no real rocks here. Where I live was the shoreline/shallows of an ancient inland sea that covered much of KY long long ago.
Where you can see the front edge of the porch... the soil level was actually up to there, when we started; my husband and I shared digging out that top 3" of clay (and weeds and their roots!), wheelbarrowing it around to a sinkhole in the back yard; once we got that top 3" of clay removed, he left the placement and initial digging of those holes for the roses all up to me. Gee that was fun. But what's shown of the holes is what I did, when I selected their placement; he was kind enough to finish them for me, about another 6" down, then I got the job of mixing the fill dirt and placing it, gee, what a lot of more fun. I haven't done anything to it in 2 yrs because my back STILL hasn't forgiven me!
Andria
But what's shown of the holes is what I did, when I selected their placement; he was kind enough to finish them for me, about another 6" down, then I got the job of mixing the fill dirt and placing it, gee, what a lot of more fun. I haven't done anything to it in 2 yrs because my back STILL hasn't forgiven me!Andria
When I had my big skidsteer, I dug up and filled in a couple of "sink" holes in subdivisions in GA. They were actually trees and stumps buried from land clearing and they often would use one plot to bury the the trees and trash from several tracts. They since have banned that practice in this area. What looked like some little sink hole would turn out to be a burial for a freight car load of tree stumps (which do not rot underground and look as fresh 15 years later)Where you can see the front edge of the porch... the soil level was actually up to there, when we started; my husband and I shared digging out that top 3" of clay (and weeds and their roots!), wheelbarrowing it around to a sinkhole in the back yard; once we got that top 3" of clay removed, he left the placement and initial digging of those holes for the roses all up to me. Gee that was fun.
Andria
I am in south GA right on the edge of the Okefenokee swamp. We have pretty good dirt here
There's some of that here, our subdivision was created in 1987. But our sinkhole is from our own dead tree in the backyard that's verrrrrrrrrrry slowly falling over; it appears to have at one time been hit by lightening, because from its girth it should easily be twice or 3 times as tall as it is now (and we discovered a previous insurance claim for the house for roof damage!). The side nearest the house is slowly rising, as the roots rise up, and the side toward which it is tilting, is sinking. Until it completes its descent, there isn't much we can do about the ground level. Thankfully it's not tall enough that it will do any damage when it finally comes to rest.
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I would go ahead and remove it, especially if it's near a room with a water heater in it or some other appliance.
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