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iantib wrote:

Hi there,
Last year on a budget we made some raised beds & I was suckered by a
skip company into buying top soil from them. It arrived & was full of
broken glass & crushed bricks & stones. Do you guys know of any way of
improving it?

So far I have mixed in some chicken pellet manure, all the compost from
my 3 compost bins.

Will it make any difference if I mis in some fish blood or bone meal,
or is it the case that its just dead, rubbish soil & my own fault for
doing it on the cheap?

The snag is were on a tight budget so any ideas you have will be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks

p.s. A friend at work's dad has 1000 chickens & has offered me a large
supply of chicken poo if I need it.

p.p.s. I should also say were new to gardening so be kind with your
responses :-) Especially with me buying top soil from a skip company

As Dave said, get rid of as much of the glass & crushed bricks & stones
as you can. Add rock phosphate, some wood ash, a little chicken manure,
and cover with alfalfa as a mulch. Cover all with newsprint (no color)
and mulch again. Make holes in bedding where you wish to put plants or
9after a couple of weeks) water seeds in to bedding. If you get worms,
you are successful. If not, you're not.

Good luck.
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