Would this soil be an appropriate medium?

[Commander in Chief]

I have a large mound of soil by my house. When the weather warms it explodes with growth seemingly overnight and forms a thick canopy of random growth. This pile was here when I bought the place five years ago and I have reason to believe it has been there since the house was built eighteen years ago. I'm wondering if I sift through it and get it to be mostly soil only, will it be like organic soil that people are making themselves or purchasing? Would there be problems from whatever stuff was previously growing in it? My next grow should begin in late May, so this soil would be ready to go.

 

[Flockshot]

You don't know what is in the soil, but you do know that it grows a lot of stuff when the weather is right. No, I wouldn't use it for an indoor grow.

 

[cyberaktif]

plop a plant right on the top of that mound and watch the lady play king of the mountain.

 

[bobsakamoto]

why don't you try it first with a bagseed or one-off clone, if you have either. failing that, you could do the same thing with say basil or a hardy flowering plant that you can get cheap or from seed...then you would know at least if it was suitable for growing anything other than whatever already grows there.

if it's really been there as long as you think it has i would bet that whatever grows there now, grows there now because of self-selection.

 

[Commander in Chief]

I would love to but that is at the woodline in my front yard and also about the only place my neighbor can see. Maybe I could hide it behind the mound. I don't think it would get enough light though.

 

[cyberaktif]

it will. that mound can't be but 3 feet high right?