Copper Ave neighbor's been patching since 2019 and now you're rebuilding the whole wall around his mesh tape.

Man that's frustrating, you did the actual job and the last two shops just played parts roulette on the customer's dime. Checking fuel trims for 20 minutes beats a $90 guess every time, and honestly the guys calling that a shortcut are usually the ones who never learned to read live data. Feels like the label gets thrown around by people who can't do it, not by people who can.

That $20 shovel and compost mix sounds about right, but I'm curious how deep you worked it into that Tulsa clay. Did you break up the hardpan underneath or just till the top few inches and let the worms do the rest? I ask because my in-ground plot sank like a rock until I went deep with a broadfork, and now I'm wondering if the depth is the real trick nobody talks about.