Help me understand 🤯 #home

[victoriadylewski]

I ask myself the same question every spring when I purchase bags of soil for my garden. That’s for the last 70 years. Don’t feel bad.

[guestuser]

Maybe put the dirt on a tarp instead of on the grass where it falls through the cracks.

[coopertown]

It's the same dirt all over your floors that you ask, "where dose all thist dirt come from."

[heavymetalweld]

Dirt goblins take it as you're working. They are tiny.

[derekfcc]

Dirt-flation. Does quite stretch as far as it used to

[thomasnichols]

What gets me is at a grave yard when they dig the grave with all the dirt on a tarp next to the grave. When they lower the casket they put all that dirt back over the coffin and a mound is present. No rain has come nor is there a wind storm a couple days later the dirt is as flat as the day they dug the grave. And yet I also wonder where did all the dirt go to backfill the plants I just put in the ground. Makes me shake my head.

[Technikatwo]

If you don't lay a tarp down or something to put the loose dirt in, it will hide under the grass or debri.

[neallott]

Old man told me it was due to the gravitational pull of the moon. On a dying moon it's pulling it into the ground. That's how they knew when to plant things that grow under ground. And you plant things that grow on top of dirt on a growing moon

[empathy_is_only_human]

Howdy hi hi,
If you really want to know I can explain this one. When left undisturbed for a long time soil, especially soil that contends with root systems for grass and whatnot. Becomes much more porous over time. Tiny little holes start to permeate throughout the soil sort of like the inside of a sponge. Some of that dirt disolves and is absorbed by the local plant life. Some is excavated by insect life, some of it is simply washed deeper underground by rain and irrigation.
So when you dig up an area there is actually not enough dirt there to refill the hole you make because it was a complex structure that you just collapsed into the pile of dirt you set aside. It would be like pouring a hundred decks of cards onto a table and then expecting that your house of cards will just instantly manifest itself the instant you finish pouring. Just isn't going to happen.

[roysmith]

Good question. Similar question—- of all the millions of tires traveling up and down highways getting worn out where does the rubber go? It’s not on the side in piles and repaving is a constant job

[thefourshowflip]

Same place that sock went when disappeared in the laundry 😅

[nancywagoner]

Lowes and Home Depot have their gremlins stealing it so they can sell it back to you!😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Dale-me]

I asked my grandpa this when I was younger, he owned a flower nursery. He told me on the rising phase of the moon you will have enough dirt, dig a hole on the down sizing of the moon phase you won't have enough dirt to fill the hole. I tested this theory and it's true. It all depends on the phase cycle of the moon

[sophroniel]

Differences in compression, water content, aeration etc. You were likely contensing the dirt more than it had been.

[houseofthewhitedog]

Biggest unanswered question I got is where all the baby pigeons at? They hatch full grown? Ain’t never seen em teach young how to fly they just pop up and never leave

[justrideahd]

It depends on the moon phase. That's what my grand papaw said

[waukesha]

Bro,
Its with the missing socks from the drier, Duh. 🤣🤣

[timmanuel]

Its like the tide in the ocean, depending on moon phase if you have enough dirt or not enough.

[AvantGarde]

This is the type of stuff that MIT does studies about

[sleepydoppy]

Lol. I love the reasons everyone gives.