Re: [gardeners] Saturday in the garden
Rockymrw@aol.com (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 4 Jun 2000 14:12:04 EDT
In a message dated 6/3/00 10:33:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
gshirley@lightwire.net writes:
<< Now I've got to dump some dirt in a hole that
is appearing in the front yard. Probing with my 6 foot steel rod tells me
that
the builder buried a tree stump 26 years ago and it has finally rotted and
collapsed. Has already taken 4 40 lb bags of dirt and will probably take 4
or 5
more to fill completely. >>
George, sure you don't have the site of an old dug well? We have one that
we had filled with dirt 20 or so years ago, that hole keeps on sinking. we
have to keep adding dirt each year. Sinks in a foot or more. Same with one
not far from our home. This one is in the driving lane of a main road to
town. It was filled and then covered over with asphalt when the road was
built, runnning through where a farmhouse etc, once stood. Each year now for
many years the asphalt has to be patched in that spot, and I would assume
dirt or something added first to fill the hole.
Marie