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2steps
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Concrete and bricksRecently I have been taking up some concrete from an area of our back garden. It turnes out to be poorly laid and a crowbar and hammer took care of it. Though now I've got that all up and moved the sand and debries from underneath I have found there is another layer of concrete underneath so I have to start all over  still, nothing some time and work can't fix. The problem I have is what to do with it all. Even if we wanted to just dump it, I have no way of doing it as I don't drive. We are building a dry-stone type walled flower bed with some and also some planters but there's so much left so if anyone has any ideas or wants some  I'd love to hear them
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sally_in_wales
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Raised beds have presumably already been thought of? Have you advertised on Freecycle? People doing extensions amazingly often have to buy hardcore, someone might be happy to come and take it away for you.
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2steps
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yep, the flower bed I'm doing is raised
thanks for the hardcore tip, my dad just suggested that too. Would be great if someone could use it
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dougal
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1/ - do be careful in case the second layer of concrete is, for example, protecting a drain or somesuch!
2/ - put a notice outside, re free hardcore. Also any free-ads papers, etc
3/ - if everything else fails you may need to hire a skip. They come in different sizes. Rates vary, area to area and company to company, I believe. So shop around, bargain and see whether any neighbours would join you to share one...
4/ - but burying the stuff is what builders would do, if they could get away with it. As Sally suggests, your raised bed doesn't have to be a *deep* bed. You may wish to vary the levels, or slope of your garden. You may want to make a herb garden - most kitchen herbs want a poorish soil and very good drainage - which is what you'd get it you made one on top of a sculpted pile of hardcore...
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2steps
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Thank you dougal, I've places a few ads.
I don't think the second layer is over anything, or at least I hope not  its about 15ft long and about 6ft wide.
Thank you for the herb tip, planting those in the bed (in the front garden) will free some space in the veggy plot 
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