Of course. After a bout with nematodes, I put in a raised garden. I get a truckload of new fertile soil for it every year. No more weeds or nematodes, just large, healthy plants.
Not really, it is sandy for miles around. During an earlier age the sea level was much higher due to global warming and the sand is a testament to that - the prevailing theory is the Chalicotheres and their friends liked to start fires in the woods, and that's what caused it.