>>>for when and if my garden dries out and starts producing<<<
Hope yours does... One of the advantages of living on a giant sandbar is that water drains pretty well. After all that rain, would you believe I actually was watering yesterday and today... First corn is starting to tassel and string beans, squash, tomatoes, water melons and cantaloupe are blossoming like mad, so wanted to give them a boost. (picked first green beans, zucchini and peppers today for dinner)
Oh, the disadvantage of living on a huge sandbar is that it dries out quickly too.
All clay here. In fact, this 15 acres was a brick yard many, many years ago. Huge hollows in the surroundings indicate where clay was extracted for bricks. When we ditched an area for drainage a few years ago, an art teacher was thrilled to get the blue clay to use for sculpting. The constant use of compost has made some of the land fairly friable, but it’s a struggle.
In one of these hollows, hubby would love to fashion a root cellar, but I think that’s too large a task to attempt with all the other projects we have going.
Years ago, when we had pigs, we must have built their pen over the brick yard, as they rooted out scads of old bricks which I salvaged for walkways.