08-27-2008, 06:16 AM
I agree that you should wait before you do much with most of your lot. There is so much that is going to happen and you need areas for trucks to pull in and materials to be left, trash to pile up. Bring whatever soil or soil mix when the house is done. I limited my planting to the periphery until recently. I bought bags of supersoil, cinder, and compost and spot planted, then covered with the free mulch. You can plant quite a lot with that strategy. But I needed to keep large areas open for trucks that delivered things like base course. A good surprise was that when they did my septic, they spread the rock that came out over about 1/5 of my lot so that part evened out and kept the weeds down for a while. They covered the leech field and tank with cinder too. Just wait, it will be much easier to deal with when you're done. The top foot of the Seaview a'a rubble is full of big chunks. Below that it is different and more like cinder. The big chunks aren't like cinder, which is why they aren't really very overgrown on most lots.