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In reply to the discussion: Greenwald interview: NSA cannot break the code on Miranda's thumb drives. [View all]Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I hope you are well outside of the flood plain, but y'all have the worst hurricanes too. Our hurricanes in NC have been sparse the last few years. Most of them have headed to the Gulf. The flood from just rain has been higher than usual in NC this year. I live near a deep pond, but I am on high ground, outside of the flood plain. Still, when it rains, my front yard looks a little like this:
It is not quite that bad now, because I have been working with it, trying to get centipede grass there to cut down on the slushy mess and erosion. It's much better now than it was, but still a slushy mess when it rains.
That could be one reason the fire ants here build lower to the ground. Another reason is that bedrock is only a few inches down, according to one guy who does work for me here. He knows about that stuff and says he hit pure bedrock very close to the surface. The fire ants have the clay and that to deal with.
I tried to plant an azalea here and it bent my spade. I was so proud. I had oiled the handle of that spade and used it for more than 20 years with no problems. I had grown up with crappy gardening tools that had been left outside and not treated. So, it was my first spade that my own. It was just my size, a little shorter than the usual length spade.
P.S. That picture is from the Wiki page on ultisols (red clay), not my actual front yard. It's just an example of how that stuff looks when it rains. I wanted to make that a little clearer. This is the page I got it from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultisols