More info and pictures: https://aus.social/@treevan/110293053188000541
One recipe:
Articles:
https://www.biochar-journal.org/en/ct/77-Planting-Urban-Trees-with-Biochar
https://stockholmtreepits.co.uk/ - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341343983_Tree_Pits_with_Structural_Soils_-_Practice_Note_Version_12
Wait, Asbestos is now hip again?
Had to go digging to find what OP was talking about
It’s not gardening soil, it’s “clean” fill for big landscaping projects, you wouldn’t replace it with rocks + biochar…
Asbestos now found in sold soil. Whoops.
It’s the same type of soil I was talking about, not gardening soil…
And holy crap, you really don’t let go, do you?
Yes mate, we always get our clean fill from “garden stores”.
The soil fill, made from recycled residues from construction and demolition sites, is known as “recovered fines”.
Soil
Fill
It’s in the article
Goodbye
There was a radio piece saying that potting mix and cheap “soil mixes” may also be affected. The same thing people put into raised garden beds as cheap soil is wood-based/bark-based.
In Australia it is. Our kids love playing in it.
I eat a bowl of it for breakfast everyday.
I’m a competitive shoveller.
Downwind of death
Fuck me that’s brutal
