Dogs?

maybe they used them as water retention. Basically as an organic sponge, kind of like some use peat moss. Who knows.

I bet they had a couple of teenage boys who played lots of sports.

Its where the name square FOOT gardening came from. ;-)

tj

Possibly to wick water down into the soil?
Or they have insane dogs like mine - sock fetish.

I once saw a video where the guy placed fertilizer in a pantyhose, tied it in a knot and set it on top of a container he had planted in. Perhaps these people did something similar? Personally I mix my organic fertilizers into the soil, but to each their own....

One of our dear departed dogs had a thing for socks. She would swallow baby socks whole and then poop them out. (Labrador) Sounds like a dog thing to me, probably buried treasure!!

This dog also loved my husbands underwear..... it was the most.....fragrant.....

Putting hair in socks were supposed to deter deer and rabbits.