[greeneyes]

The raised beds with Mel’s mix are not really bothered too much with the rain. It drains off so quickly, you can get right back too it pretty fast.

The resto of the beds have enough clay to be a real pain when blessed with rain.

[JRandomFreeper]

Soil here is a thin veneer of topsoil on top of 8" of sand which is on top of clay about 14 inches down.

This area used to be a beach back a million years or so ago.

The 2 yards of fine tree mulch that my son-in-law brought in made a heck of a difference in the hydrology of the garden. I've only used the drip irrigation once this year, and that was for the peanuts, which can't have landscaping fabric or heavy mulch around them.

/johnny