I got the entire brush pile cut up and put in the trench and back filled with dirt up to ground level this spring. Later, when setting up fence posts for the new, 1800+ sq. ft. garden, I quickly discovered the trench I had dug was off kilter in relation to the house, storage building and north property line. I also didn't want any part of the northern section of the garden to be in a low area of the yard so I shifted the line south which lost me a few feet of the now filled in trench. It was originally 36' long but I had also increased the width of the trench from 3' to 4' and kept the depth to 2 1/2' before filling in with cut brush and dirt.
My youngest stepson was doing some remodeling on his house and had removed an old deck from which I salvaged a number of 2 X 6 boards. With that, I built the frame of a 31 1/2' long, going north and south, by 4' wide by 11" high raised bed. Earlier this summer, I got several garbage cans of grass clippings from a brother's place that I mow for him and dumped that and spread out in the bottom of the raised bed. I fluffed this up every so often as it decomposed and am now filling the raised bed with the dirt I had originally dug out so long ago it now seems. Starting at the southern end, I have 8' of the raised bed filled in so far. A rather slow process as I'm picking out all rock and small stones before tossing the dirt in the raised bed.
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