Ok, so my compost is doing what it's supposed to do, and decomposting, and the soil is experiencing subsidence. I'm not imagining anything. The soil isn't washing away to neighbors, friends, family or coworkers. It's just settling in. Not even turning into silt headed to the Mississippi.
Our ground has shifted quite a bit in the last year here. This house was built in 1967, but the last 2 summers have been so dry that the foundation is moving again. If ever we get rain again, I may find leaks in the basement. hopefully not! I have a french door that won't latch. my dogs love being able to come and go just by pushing on the door. I hate finding it wide open with the a.c. running full blast.
The cracks in the yard are 2" wide in some places. The only places without cracks are the flower beds where I've added compost and top dressed with mulch again and again. Of course, that's where I'm watering also.
I think I will keep adding to the flower beds, and cover up the bud unions as much as I can. We just may have a real winter this year, and after all the stress the plants have gone through this summer, they'll need all the help they can get to survive the winter.
