what to do with sandpit

[homstedinmyhead]

I have a two acre field that I'm using to grow vegetables for market. Most of the field has great soil but there is a 50' by 100' patch thats pure beach sand. Any ideas on how to best utilise it? I was thinking volley ball court, just wondering if anybody had better ideas that won't threaten my lettuce with decapitation by volley ball.

[BikerChick]

I put in a fire pit and some raised garden beds when I got rid of a 24' round pool that came with the house I bought last year. (The pool also came with mosquitos up the wazoo.)

[TedH71]

I would've kept the pool and put tapilia fish or catfish in it. No more mosquitoes and you can eat the fish.

[MO_cows]

Amend the sand with a good load of compost and plant melons.

[ryanthomas]

Mix in some compost (not too much) and grow carrots.

[Old Vet]

Poke holes in it and call it a golf course and invite Obama to play their.

[Old Vet]

With all honesty mix sawdust with it a lot of sawdust and keep it wet and next year you will be able to grow just about anything you want.You need to also use commercial fertilizer on it to make it rot and next year before you plant it do a soil test. In the nursery we had a spot of sugar sand and that is what I did to it. Keep it tilled while the sawdust rots and mixes with the soil. If you have the option use Oak sawdust or mixed hardwoods from a saw mill. They will almost give it away but it will take about 2 dump truck for what you need. Trucking it is expensive.