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Comments (5)Here we have clay "bathtub soil"...if I fill a hole with water, it's still there the next morning. In the summer that's not altogether bad, because our blastfurnace heat sucks up the moisture. But in the winter, plants can drown pretty easily. I use lots of amendments, raised beds for roses, and gypsum is my dear friend. Being sited on a slope helps too. Really I guess it is a tribute to the toughness of nature that we manage to grow trees and shrubs fairly successfully. (Michael, I think I'm scared to perform the percolation test you describe...falls into the category of things you don't really want to know.)...See MoreSoil Drainage
Comments (13)Hence, I suggested local expertise to evaluate soils, and landscape. I would also think other nearby residents would be experiencing the same problem if it was groundwater related, unless tagunn is in the community low spot. The OR coast occurs in a coupe of fairly distinct regions. From Tillamook north it is fairly sandy, and does have some lower coastal approaches. The Tillamook region is well known for annual flooding that comes with winter Pacific storms. Then there is the southern coast, which begins around Lincoln City and extends south, and is predominantly seacliffs and rocky coastline with some very nice beaches at the bottom of some of those cliffs. The issue I have with it being a water table, even if a seasonally perched water table, is that it would have to have been totally missed in the construction process. Housing construction in coastal OR is a fairly modern development, and the State is very, very picky about protecting groundwater. The State maintains a network of monitoring wells around the state, one function of which is to monitor ground water levels. They have some very specific and detailed requirements for wells and septic that includes minimum depth to groundwater considerations. If it was municipal services, that too should have been caught....See MoreSoil drainage in closed pot (no drainage holes)
Comments (14)I have a really pretty large ceramic pot with no drainage, and it is an odd shape (not round) so I can't find any cache pots that sit correctly. I did read about the masonry bit to drill into pots, but this one is glazed so I feel like it would crack easily. I also don't have a masonry bit or a hand drill. To solve my problem, I went to the store and bought some rocks (~$4 for 40lbs) and some sturdy 1/2 in plastic tubing (~$0.33 per foot). I put the tubing in the bottom of the pot and layered up larger rocks around it, then put in some smaller rocks in between the cracks so that I could not see the bottom of the pot anymore. I chose larger rocks for the bottom layers to avoid clogging my tubing with small rocks, and small rocks at the top so that my soil wouldn't fall down in between the larger rocks. The total depth of the rocks was around 3-4 inches. I added soil/plants on top of my contraption allowing the tubing to hang over the side of my pot. I am hoping that the rocks will allow good drainage to my soil and that I can siphon off extra water in the bottom of the pot as it collects. I just put this together yesterday so I can't attest to how well it works, but I am hopeful since I read reference to this method earlier in the thread. As a last note, the tubing doesn't look pretty coming out of it, but I hope plants will cover it up. I am also worried that the tubing will be yanked out of the soil, so I think I will tape it down to the back of the pot....See MoreImproving soil drainage for plants in the yard?
Comments (2)Yes, digging a large and well amended planting hole in a poorly draining soil is pretty much a recipe for disaster. If you do not wish to amend a much larger area (and often all that does is increase the size of the 'bathtub') then dig a wide but quite shallow planting hole and site the plant high, so that the top inch or two of the root ball is above grade. Backfill with the soil you have removed (break up well) and then top off with whatever amendments you want to make a small mound or berm of soil. No bathtub and the elevation will assist with drainage. This is SOP for planting in a clay based soil....See MoreShareema 7a NY
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