We bought a house this winter that had a rather expensive looking landscape design going on. The back of the house abuts a road, and is sloped downward rather steeply. Looking at the neighbor, I can see the retaining wall was once stacked rocks and dirt. Their side looks decently stable. There is a wooden fence running across the top of this (level dirt and a sidewalk on the other side).
We have a section of the fence that is leaning a bit. I thought originally we'd have to repair it and set new concrete, but turns out it's easy to push back in place, concrete and post look good, but the ground is not stable on our side. We did some research and decided planting to stabilze the earth was our best choice. I bought some blueberry plants, and have plans to add strawberries. Went out to dig into the the beds today and discovered they are actually very shallow. For whatever reason (cost?) the landscaper left the heavy clay soil, put down weed fabric, then filled in about two inches of dirt.
I am really not sure how to approach this....do I pull up the weed fabric, dig out the front of the bad soil and fill with good stuff, then plant? Will that destabilize the fence? Give up and just do strawberries? Weirdly, there are two bushes already growing there (I think also blueberries?), but I have no idea how they managed to get them planted deep enough!