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Old 10-08-2006, 09:37 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren Nick Maclaren is offline
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Default Stones under apple trees


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"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow writes:
| "Sacha" wrote in message
| ...
| Okay, I extracted more info from Ray this morning. ;-) Apparently
| the
| slabs were real paving slab size - around 3' x 2.5' and they were
| buried a
| yard below the apple trees' roots.
|
| Wow! That is a SERIOUS hole. Almost like digging to China. The old
| bloke who dug the holes must have been fit.

Eh? That is a third of the effort of digging a standard grave. It is
only shifting a tonne up by under a metre. Even I could do that in a
day.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.