Vegetable Garden Drainage
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Drainage is one of the most important things you must look out
for in selecting your garden site. Dig down eight or
twelve inches after you have picked out a favorable spot, and
examine the sub-soil to determine if you will have sufficient
garden drainage. This is the second strata, usually of different
texture and color from the rich surface soil, and harder than it. If
you find a sandy or gravelly bed, no matter how yellow and poor it
looks, you have chosen the right spot and will have good garden
drainage. But if it is a stiff, heavy clay, especially a blue
clay, you will have to either drain it or be content with a very
late garden--that is, unless you are at the top of a knoll or
on a slope.
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