Or watching them do any earthworks

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    Same for me an arborist watching construction workers drive heavy machinery over the roots of a legally protected tree to dig a giant chasm 5 feet from its trunk.

    Of course when it dies two years later it will be a mystery.

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      Ah, gotcha.

      OP too esoteric for me to understand whether Bernie is watching with interest (he looks comfortable) or rage.

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      My community pays landscapers to try to grow grass under the trees, so twice a year they’ll aerate and seed, under the trees.

      Then mow under them. From March to November.

      Trees keep dying and we keep having to increase HoA fees to pay for cutting trees down … for some reason.

      But the landscapers keep getting work cuz now that the trees are cut down they “can grow grass”

      I hate them and will be coup’ing them in the coming year.

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      Soil compacts when wet and driven over. This decreases porosity and infiltration. Finer textures like silt and clay compact more

      Basically by driving over their work, they are undoing all of it.

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        I ordered a bit too much dirt for some garden beds I built so I stomped it down to fit it all. I had do dig it out as my veggies were struggling to penetrate. I had carrots with right angles in them.

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          Euufh. Yeah that’s not great. If you busted things up you’ll probably be ok. Easier to decompact beds like that than an in situ garden

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            I also needed to move one bed four inches away from the other so they weren’t ankle breakingly close together.