>>525423>surprisingly rich, and with extra heavy metals to boot!I was thinking this too. Anything near roads is also highly polluted. Not just from exhaust, but from tires. Tire dust contains a horrific amount of chemicals and bad metals that plants sometimes uptake, depending on the plant type.
>yet another reason why making your own compost should be a regular thingSeconding. It is a long term process, but it is very much worth it. Take the compost beds in
>>524459 Row 1 Pic 3 and Row 2 Pic 1 are beds with nothing but composting materials. Nothing will be planted in those for a long long time. Even though the first one has tons of volunteers, those will be ripped out due to possible pathogen contamination.
>>525424That is used natural gas pipe line. It is made of black High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) plastic. It is naturally curled like that due to being on a massive spool when they take it up and store it. It is pretty thick too and comes in 2 sizes. It is surprisingly sturdy in those short sections. It can be easily manipulated, cut/drilled, and can be melted and welded together using a heat gun.
In this image, you can see someone else's pipe structure using the large size piping. It makes a large half dome over the garden beds which gets covered in plastic in the winter.
