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Chuck (CA)

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About 7 or 8 years ago, I planted a new lawn from seed in a side yard (about 30 x 60). At that time I painstakingly removed all the rocks and gravel with a screen. Due to a series of events, the lawn died and now I'm getting ready to plant another one. Here's the puzzle:
I'm finding a lot more rocks. I'm about half way through the yard and have already removed 3 full wheelbarrows of more rocks. Where are they coming from?

Drives me crazy.

Chuck
 
Rocks work their way to the surface, especially after plowing/rototilling. Also, if you originally had a thin layer of loam put down, it has mixed over time with the layers of dirt underneath.
 
(quoted from post at 10:59:51 09/25/08) About 7 or 8 years ago, I planted a new lawn from seed in a side yard (about 30 x 60). At that time I painstakingly removed all the rocks and gravel with a screen. Due to a series of events, the lawn died and now I'm getting ready to plant another one. Here's the puzzle:
I'm finding a lot more rocks. I'm about half way through the yard and have already removed 3 full wheelbarrows of more rocks. Where are they coming from?

Drives me crazy.

Chuck
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Them ain't rocks, thems gravel. These are rocks! The smallest one is around 600lbs. These pop up in the field about every 5-6 years and there's no freeze-thaw down here. The way I figure is that these big rocks must have anti-gravity properties when under ground. When they get to the surface, the dang things lose their magnetism or sumthin. :roll:

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(quoted from post at 10:59:51 09/25/08) About 7 or 8 years ago, I planted a new lawn from seed in a side yard (about 30 x 60). At that time I painstakingly removed all the rocks and gravel with a screen. Due to a series of events, the lawn died and now I'm getting ready to plant another one. Here's the puzzle:
I'm finding a lot more rocks. I'm about half way through the yard and have already removed 3 full wheelbarrows of more rocks. Where are they coming from?

Drives me crazy.

Chuck
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I've got the same problem. Got about a half acre piece that I go over religiously and remove rocks at least once a month. There are some burial mounds in the immediate area so the rock picking is more relaxation than work. I spend hours and remove every rock on the place that I see. If it's an arrowhead or looks like a piece of a tool, it goes home with me, if not, it goes on a pile next to the property. Stuff surfaces without anything out of the ordinary as far as weather, etc. I could see where it would get on someones nerves though.


Dave
 
Are you sure that the seed you used did not have and rock seed in it? It is listed in the "other seed" percentage on the package.
 
Them rocks are popping up becasue of erosin. Its amazing how much dirt is lost to water run off from hard rains, melting snow etc.
 
(quoted from post at 18:59:51 09/25/08) About 7 or 8 years ago, I planted a new lawn from seed in a side yard (about 30 x 60). At that time I painstakingly removed all the rocks and gravel with a screen. Due to a series of events, the lawn died and now I'm getting ready to plant another one. Here's the puzzle:
I'm finding a lot more rocks. I'm about half way through the yard and have already removed 3 full wheelbarrows of more rocks. Where are they coming from?

Drives me crazy.

Chuck
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I just pick the Females the Bulls will move on
 
Well, it"s like this:: rocks are hard, they absorb internal heat from the center of the Earth...
Dirt is soft, and the internal heat is less concentrated...
Hot things rise thru cooler things, so no matter how many rocks you clear out, every year you have a new bunch, usually just an inch or so down...
It"s why most rocks don"t have value; there"re just so many of them...
That"s all a joke, except for those of us who live on top of glacial till mostly old riverbed rocks.
 
Several years ago on my birthday, one of my wife's girlfriends gave me a rock with the engraved inscription, "At least you aren't as old as this rock".

Maybe you could find a business like that to sell them.
 
A old man once told me " its because you don"t take the proper precautions when you pick them up " He said you have to carefully cover them in a plastic bag before you move them so the seeds don"t fall off .
 
I kinda have a different problem. I put in a sprinkler system about 10 years ago with 4" popups. It seems like each year the sprinklers sink in deeper or the yard is filling in. It is almost to the point to where I'm going to have to dig them out and add extension pipes on.

Any ideas?
 
Blame those darned PET ROCKS the kids had several years ago. So many turned them loose without nuetering them. Dang things have litters of a dozen or more. LOL
 
I've heard that water comes from Canada and feeds some of our springs and wells in the U.S. so it stands to reason that rocks also come underground from Canada to feed our fields. And maybe the reason milk is so high in calcium is that the cows and goats eat the limestones when we're not looking.

When reading ytmag, I never cease to enjoy everyone's wonderful sense of humus. Thanks!
 
I have explained this before here, but its been some time ago. I, too, had this problem. Every year in my garden I threw rocks down to the parking area. Next year, more rocks. Then it hit me; rocks migrate! During the winter they travel underground back to their nesting grounds. Try this; put your name on a rock (or better still, an electronic tracking collar) and watch for it to crop up. Bet you a beer or two you wont have to wait long. If I'm wrong, the beer will still have been good for us.
 
I used to hit a rock in one of my fields when I was applying anhydrous ammonia. After about 10 years and a winter when the temperatures varied from freezing to thawing many times, this rock, 30 inches in diameter, was sitting right on top of the ground. I always figured the frost pushed them upwards.
 
Due to the spinning of the earths rotation, rocks being heavier than dirt tend to work upward, Kinda like sifting through.when they get up to the top the difference between the centrifugal force and gravity is equaled out thus being heavy to us humans.
I learned this in Hi school from a prominent professor we had as a guest, His name was Gyro Gearloose
 
it's gotta be erosion...
man i remember paying kids 50 cents a 5 gallon drywall pail to pick up rocks ....at the end of the weekend the area looked pristine, after the first rain it looked like a cobblestone road.

ever notice, though: can't get grass to grow well in a bedded lawn, but it grows like crazy in the gravel drive?
 
We in Canada have been planting rocks for centuries. The crop has never been any good and now we know why. We have been planting them upside down and their growing all the way to the usa.Maybe with the free trade agreement we could buy some back?
 
The rumour is - rocks grow. In my area, farms have been picking rocks since the mid 1700s and still have to, every year. Here in New York, I suspect much has to do with frost heaving pushing up new rocks all the time. If I was able to remove all the rocks from my fields, I'd have huge craters instead of fields.
 
When we lived in Pa. our neighbor once said that with all the rocks he'd picked his whole d@mn farm ought to be about 2' lower than everybody elses. I told him that can't be because everbody else was doing the same thing so we all were dropping at the same rate. He called me a smart@ss for some reason
 
I heard that knomes live underground, maybe yall pi$$ed them off, I wish I had knomes down here, I would really make them mad, cause I need a rock garden and a new drive way!!!
 
Chuck if your soils are shrink swell types they will tend to move any existing sub surfce rocks to the surface over time. It is a slow process usually. Shrink swell means swell when they wet up and crack bad when they dry out.

Mitch
 
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