"Srgnt Billko" wrote:
"Steveo" wrote in message
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"Srgnt Billko" wrote:
Our main garden is in a low spot and stays soggy in the spring so
we've been digging a drainage ditch through the woods (an old logging
road). I estimated it would be about 100' long but when I paced it off
today it seems closer to 200'. This is the ditch I started with a
garden plow on a small farm tractor a couple weeks ago. Now we are
digging by hand. The lower 50' was a wet spot too. We have a ditch dug
there and it is draining. From the garden we have about 30' dug and
trying to drain. Working both ends toward the middle. We've covered
the ditch with old black tarps and metal sheets so there is no frost
yet - but with the wind forecast we probably won't make much progress
tomorrow. If we get it draining it will aloww us to start planting a
couple weeks earlier than in most springs.

Hat's off Sarge. Is it really muddy, or no?


You should see my workboots and the driver's floor of the Jeep LOL
Muddy - yes - and it's the real sticky kind.

I kinda figured it was, otherwise you could try a rented trencher against
it.

You're not trenching level ground either, right? Traction could be a
problem.

Sounds like real family fun with the better half out there digging with
you. Hats off to a good woman!

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