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We bought a 4 acre place 5 years ago. We get massive flooding a couple times a year.

The USDA says we’e the low spot for the surrounding 70 acres. We have good drainage so it eventually does drain. But Im left with a muddy mess for a few days, fence damage that is a problem for livestock, mosquitoes and such.

USDA says I need a flood retardation pond. I need to make a path to dump the dirt to the pasture, requiring the removal of old fencing. All kinds of challenges!

Basically what Im wondering about is trenches. While I can’t do the pond yet, I have started a trench from where the pond will be (low point) to where it exits the property. I hit clay about 18″ down.

Can I fill these trenches with mulch or will it just wash out? I have donkeys that I need to keep safe from open trenches.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Permaculture/comments/1fjysfc/first_time_planting_asparagus_already_growing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

This was the original post. It’s now end of April and no shoots are coming up. Concerned that they may have died. Is there a way to check? If they did then I will reuse the bed for something else although quite sad as I was hoping for a nice and dedicated asparagus bed.

Hey Reddit, Thinking about a roughly 500-acre spot in the Upper Nile State region of South Sudan. It gets pretty hot in January (highs around 90, lows around 50). The soil is mostly vertisol with some sandy patches. Would it even be possible to plant trees common in the Northeast US, like pine and poplar, in that kind of environment and soil? And if it somehow worked, what kind of impact could that have on the area? Just curious about the possibilities and challenges!

Also would this increase rainfall???

This thing has been so happy for the last year in this spot. It was blooming happily last week! Now, almost all the flowers are dead.

There are plenty of new leaves… i guess? A handful of healthy flowers. The soil is moist, kinda wet, i guess. I am always nervous about root rot, so I pulled it, and the roots look super happy. WTF is up?

I haven’t been good about fertilizing this spring, but that can’t be the cause.

link to pics: https://imgur.com/a/2eVh1Cd