Baymule
Herd Master
It does that here. East Texas is named the Piney Woods and this time of year everything is yellow. I’ve seen gutters on the streets in town run yellow in a rain.
It will get better!
It will get better!
Canesister's 2025 journal - Bushel & Peck Farm
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SageHill
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It was like that at our old house - pine trees just letting go of all the day glo stuff just for us! 
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canesisters
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LOTS of pines here. Most of the undeveloped land is timber.... little else than pines for miles around.
I got out anyway and got that asparagus bed in.
Mowed the "grass" really short then covered in cardboard. Set the old fence boards down & cut an old, broken post in half to be the corner posts. Filled the bed with several loads of rotting hay/manure from last year's feeder spot. I'm hoping I'm not going to regret that.... there is a lot of weed roots & a LOT of grubs in there. A lot of good bugs have a grub phase..... right???? Not necessarily the ruin your garden kind of grubs????? Anyway, it's in there now.
I covered the cardboard edges in mulch & called it quits.
We're supposed to get some rain this evening. My 'plan' is to plant the asparagus in the morning. There are 10 regular green ones & 10 purple ones. Then I'll put a nice thick layer of leaf mulch over it all.
Poor green Eva
I got out anyway and got that asparagus bed in.
Mowed the "grass" really short then covered in cardboard. Set the old fence boards down & cut an old, broken post in half to be the corner posts. Filled the bed with several loads of rotting hay/manure from last year's feeder spot. I'm hoping I'm not going to regret that.... there is a lot of weed roots & a LOT of grubs in there. A lot of good bugs have a grub phase..... right???? Not necessarily the ruin your garden kind of grubs????? Anyway, it's in there now.
I covered the cardboard edges in mulch & called it quits.
We're supposed to get some rain this evening. My 'plan' is to plant the asparagus in the morning. There are 10 regular green ones & 10 purple ones. Then I'll put a nice thick layer of leaf mulch over it all.
Poor green Eva
Baymule
Herd Master
Asparagus bed! You did great! I love asparagus, snap it off right in the garden and eat it. LOL
Mini Horses
Herd Master
That's an impressive job, gal!! And eva looks contented 
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canesisters
Herd Master
..... 
"So here's the thing"
I picked this area to eventually be filled with raised garden beds because:
Full sun
Best soil on the property - grows better grass than ANYWHERE else
Has a high water table or a nearly surface spring because it stays damp longer after a rain
So can someone help me understand how adding 3 boards & some compost ON TOP of the existing soil - not disturbing the ground at all except for mowing the grass - has caused several inches of water to now be standing!?!?!?
My new temporary duck pond
20 asparagus crowns soaking in the kitchen & I'm unsure about planting them now. This was my usual path to the barn so I know it doesn't normally flood.
It's going down near 30 tomorrow night. I guess they'll just have to wait in the house a few more days since that bed is going to be COLD.
"So here's the thing"
I picked this area to eventually be filled with raised garden beds because:
Full sun
Best soil on the property - grows better grass than ANYWHERE else
Has a high water table or a nearly surface spring because it stays damp longer after a rain
So can someone help me understand how adding 3 boards & some compost ON TOP of the existing soil - not disturbing the ground at all except for mowing the grass - has caused several inches of water to now be standing!?!?!?
My new temporary duck pond
20 asparagus crowns soaking in the kitchen & I'm unsure about planting them now. This was my usual path to the barn so I know it doesn't normally flood.
It's going down near 30 tomorrow night. I guess they'll just have to wait in the house a few more days since that bed is going to be COLD.
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Baymule
Herd Master
It rained didn’t it? The boards hold in the water. The dirt below was not disturbed and probably is hard enough so water doesn’t trickle through it very fast, and it can’t run off.
What’s the blue bob for? Is THAT where you hid the body? Shoulda put it under the asparagus bed! Great fertilizer! BWAHAHAHA
What’s the blue bob for? Is THAT where you hid the body? Shoulda put it under the asparagus bed! Great fertilizer! BWAHAHAHA
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canesisters
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Yep, it's rained. But the boards are on top of the soil, not even tight to it. I slid some of the last bits of cardboard under them.
I thought that maybe the compost is somehow causing a dam, but there is a similar bed on the other side of the wood fence and it hasn't flooded before with just normal rain.
The blue blob is the puddle. And the key to bodies is trees, not garden beds..... much harder to detect
I thought that maybe the compost is somehow causing a dam, but there is a similar bed on the other side of the wood fence and it hasn't flooded before with just normal rain.
The blue blob is the puddle. And the key to bodies is trees, not garden beds..... much harder to detect
Mini Horses
Herd Master
The cardboard is my guess. It wasn't wet or rotted soft. Until it gets soaked, it'll shed the excess water that the ground under used to absorb. Temporary. Prob a month or so before good absorption happens with a heavy rain. 
