Make a garden before you build a house

1. Early disclosure (Reading the soil from identified plants in the plot)

Before I did anything in the garden, I observed what was growing there in January 2021. I observed that the plot had been used for remnant of art projects, especially sand and limestone where to find a lot places. Someone also told me that the metal workshop had “leaked” metal waste in the ground whenever people would work outside.

Nettle (likes nitrogen rich soils) Blood sorrel (acidic) Clover (likes poor soils) Horseradish roots Bayleaf bush looked really happy Greater celandine (perennial, grows in rich moist soil with shadow, in forests or disturbed wastelands etc.) told me a lot about the composition about the soil, and the orientation of sun. Marble tree shoot – there was a lot of marble shoots, and it is common that if you leave a place for long enough a forest emerge after while. large sage roots (had taken a lot of the space in the front, which revealed perhaps a sandy composition in that area, and opportunity for sun) the sage roots had not been pruned before the winter, and had suffered, although it was still growing some places. different kinds of mints and lemon verbena, pioneers, creates a lot of biomass in the soil due to the extensive root system. strawberries (rich soil, is ok with shadow) moss (soil moist covered by foliage the wines.

I got that the soil was rich, but “disturbed” in the sense that several minerals had been added to it. It was moist, which explained the snail invasion. The blood sorrel revealed that the soil seemed to be relatively acid. Greater celandine that the topography was similar to that of a forest.

If the plot wants to become a forest why not let it? Would a forest be an ideal green space to the designated space in-between the buildings? What is the potential of a plot of land? And is it ok to intervene with what seems to be the natural agenda of the ecosystem?