Mr. Bill wrote:

[snip]

Just an opinion but it sounds as though the underlying soil is, for lack of
a better term "poisoned". I don't mean there is a poison in the soil, just
that there is something in it that was bad enough to keep your plants from
growing. Could be a fungus or salts or nematodes or something of that
nature.

I've thought about this possibility. If it is true, I'm surprised
that the effect is so local. I'm also surprised that it didn't affect
the grass that was growing there two years ago.

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