Sports field
I’ve built two retaining walls around my patio designed to act as a raised bed
Anyway large raised beds need a growing medium. My nephew who is grounds man for a major football stadium has told me that contractors are moving in to remove 4 inches of a section of the field and he’ll put my name on whatever I need or want of it, otherwise the contractor dumps it
What I’m wondering is if this type of medium is any good for the type of raised beds I’ve mentioned. I ask ask this because I know that each year they dump maybe 2 to 4 inches of sand on their fields. The mayor problem I see is that football fields are not designed to hold water
I would appreciate a few thoughts on the issue. I’m guessing I would need at least one and a half tons of top soil. This would be cost free. Kevin
Anyway large raised beds need a growing medium. My nephew who is grounds man for a major football stadium has told me that contractors are moving in to remove 4 inches of a section of the field and he’ll put my name on whatever I need or want of it, otherwise the contractor dumps it
What I’m wondering is if this type of medium is any good for the type of raised beds I’ve mentioned. I ask ask this because I know that each year they dump maybe 2 to 4 inches of sand on their fields. The mayor problem I see is that football fields are not designed to hold water
I would appreciate a few thoughts on the issue. I’m guessing I would need at least one and a half tons of top soil. This would be cost free. Kevin
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Raised beds drain more easily anyway, so it might suit anything that appreciates very dry, sandy soil.
You may want to mix it with well rotted manure to ensure there's a bit of heart to it though.
I'd expect it's also had a lot of fertilisers but that shouldn't be a problem.
A good layer [9 inches or even more] of that soil at the bottom of a 2 foot bed, would be great, but if the beds are 6 or 9 inches high, it becomes a different thing altogether.