From the look of it, I can’t imagine plants growing in it, other than weed. It isn’t a fertile soil, but probably a mixture of construction material, gravel, and earth. The word “dirt” has at least three meanings:
[smartass]And what makes the difference between weed and a plant? It's only a matter of perception.[/smartass]
Poppies do grow on dirt. Ask Major John McRea.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.Photography isn't a too serious matter, isn't it? :-)
Of course the title is cynical.
I'll give a bit socio cultural background (Whoeha)
Flanders is a 100% urbanized 13522 km2 plot of land.
Chernozem, Black soil, the fertile 20cm top layer is expensive and treated like gold. Black soil is business.
Ground-workers earn massive money with the excavation of soil to build the foundation of a house and move the material to another site to ground level the area. The yellow sand could be used, but since this is valuable material for other purposes, also too expensive to fill up gaps, instead, rubble is used.
When one builds a house on the location of a previous house, the remains of the old house are used to level out the surface. (In Flanders we don't build in wood, mostly in red brickwork)
And here comes an interesting detail. In old houses, lots of asbestos is used, asbestos in the roof, asbestos in the linoleum, asbestos in the window sills, etc etc. As long as the asbestos is in bound condition, it's not a big deal, but when the rubble is send to rubble shredders,... I don't need explain further... Soil Asbestos pollution is not uncommon.
And then the fifties and sixties: Concrete was the new thing. And now, some of the concrete contraptions, built with inferior quality of concrete are demolished and ground-worker companies used the concrete rubble as 'dirt' to level out for roads and other infra works. Time learned that the concrete rubble decompose and loose its filling capacity in time. Subsidence and road slip as result.
All this lead into legal required quality labels and this drives up the cost of filling material, soil, sand and all what you can put under ground level. Quality fraude is an unavoidable result.
And now the link to the title.
When I see a pile of low quality soil, I call it a pile of commercial graded black soil. At least, for what it has been sold.
