Understanding Berm Fill Material and Planting Intent

that's for sure man now before you begin construction of a landscaping privacy berm there's a few things you need to understand what is the intention of the customer's planting plan so is the customer going to have very specific plants in just certain locations or is the customer going to plant the whole thing and let it go wild and the reason it's important to understand that is because that determines the kind of fill that you're going to put in for the privacy berm if the customer plans on having a controlled planting which means he's going to put a plant here and another plant there and another plant over here and they're not going to intermix then you're going to want to choose structural fill for your privacy bourbon the reason you want to do that is because the structural fill is going to resist settlement it's also going to control uncontrolled growth meaning your plants aren't going to grow rampant because the soil where they're trying to grow into won't be very good but now you all of a sudden heard a couple of you guys go wait a minute well that's going to kill the plants that they want to put in well technically no because what they'll do then is wherever those plants aren't going to be put in the customer wants that's where you put your organic material but now if the customer wants the entire privacy berm to just go wild you don't use structural feel you use organic material for your privacy berm the drawback to that is that you're going to have more differential settlement meaning organic soil is going to start to automatically break down as it's put in place and you can't compact it so that the berm is not going to look perfect to the eye but it's not meant to it's meant to allow for plants to grow in to spread to propagate to take the berm over so there is a strategy to understanding what you're doing when you're building a privacy burn before you get started on it wait a minute what you didn't say that was a secret well it's a secret to some people not everybody understands that my customer didn't and i had to explain that to them and i thought maybe one or two of you wanted to hear it too well we're all