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Ok, so I'm turning over another new bed on my new lottie, nothing unusual, bit of couch, the odd dandelion making its way to Australia, and then.... Coal!
I appear to have hit a payload seam. I believe it was deposited there by the previous owner as there is quite a bit on the surface once you scrape away the grass. None of it is bigger than a walnut - most of it much smaller - and the soil is actually very nice in this area, well drained, crumbly and doesn't smell like a coal bunker.
My questions are: Will this coal deposit limit what I can grow in this bed? What can I do to balance the soil - if balancing is what it needs? I have already dug in WRM and riddled out a lot of the coal. Was planning to possibly use this bed for Raspberries.
Hey! Just thought! It might be charcoal, but it seems a bit hard for that. Anyway, same questions apply. Ta!
I appear to have hit a payload seam. I believe it was deposited there by the previous owner as there is quite a bit on the surface once you scrape away the grass. None of it is bigger than a walnut - most of it much smaller - and the soil is actually very nice in this area, well drained, crumbly and doesn't smell like a coal bunker.
My questions are: Will this coal deposit limit what I can grow in this bed? What can I do to balance the soil - if balancing is what it needs? I have already dug in WRM and riddled out a lot of the coal. Was planning to possibly use this bed for Raspberries.
Hey! Just thought! It might be charcoal, but it seems a bit hard for that. Anyway, same questions apply. Ta!
, no heat or hot water, oh well only another 5 weeks for the part to arrive 
Don't worry, it will vanish as the growing season progresses, until just as the last frosts go, it too will be gone. (With the coaled weather !
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Yes, and you know what the greedy culprits were all saying as they feverishly competed to fill sacks at dead of night, don't you Snadger ?
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