I doubt you are going to get it all picked up. Honestly, if you are doing construction around there the grass will get torn up anyway, maybe get a friendly farmer to come over and plow or disk up the yard and then run over it with a box blade or scraper to smooth it back out, this should bury the majority of the glass and other construction trash that is too small to pick up. Then once you re-plant the grass it should hide or cover anything that is left.
Thank you for this idea! We don't have any grass (We're in a Ponderosa forest area), but plowing is a great idea. I think I'll ask for plowing followed by some serious ground-cover plants on top. Once some mulch gets laid down, I hope it will be chicken-friendly again.
Sounds like a plan that will work. Good luck with everything
This is a great idea, but you'll still want to pick up as much glass as you can before you plow under. Glass has a way of working it's way to the surface much more quickly than plain stones or gravel, especially if your ground freezes and thaws.
Thank you! The glass issue really bothers me. There is not a lot of vegetation on our property: It's sandy soil in a pine forest. Before the fire, the chickens wandered around the house, naturally eating dirt (along with the odd dandelion and grasshopper.) There is no way to pick up all the tiny bits of glass, and I think it would be fatal for the birds to eat any shards. Has anyone else had to deal with this kind of glass problem??
I have an 80+ year old outbuilding behind my house. It was in horrible disrepair when we moved in, with a huge gap in the roof and broken windows all the way around. Despite constant diligence whenever we garden or mow that area, we're still picking up ever-smaller fragments fifteen years after starting the repairs. I don't think we'll EVER get it all!
Yup! Yup! We have an unofficial challenge going on out back. Every time someone finds a handful of glass shards, someone else ends up going out to "best the count." Now that my kids are older, we don't even make any announcements about it, anymore. Whenever I dig around in the garden bed out there (mulching or weeding) or one of the kids mows or weed-whacks, there's usually a bowl on the counter with the shards in it. Someone else will add to it, and when it's full, it gets dumped until next time. Sometimes, the "next time" is right away. Other times, it's whenever the next round of yard work comes due. It works for us!Pick up what you can, and move on. We have glass shards around the old buildings here too, and they will eventually 'round off' their edges a bit, a good thing. Metal shows up here also, and I have a roller magnet that picks up nails and stuff every year.
Mary
I believe that was an option considered,
maybe you missed that part of the thread?
