dig it

They planned to leave the wood there for 9 years, and then dig it up to see how much it had rotted.

Then when I moved into a house that had this weird concrete space in the backyard, I thought, “I guess I could dig it up and make it a garden or something.”

Do you have to dig it out, seal it in a baggie, and send it to a hospital for burial?

Standard practice in the trade would be to dig it all up, cart it away and bring in clean soil that would be easier on plants.

"We're going to dig it up. We're gonna change all the infrastructure. Then we're gonna start building other stuff."