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Upper Midwest Gardening: Percolation! It's a beautiful thing!

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grrrlgeek
Grayslake, IL
(Zone 5a)

September 15, 2009
03:58 PM

Post #7067726

Forgive my excitement, but when I tried the usual percolation tests before, I measured the time in days, weeks. Like pouring water in a ceramic bowl. I decided I wanted a little rain garden, and chose the appropriate down spout. I knew I'd have to dig deep and add gravel and lots of other stuff, so I got to digging. Yesterday I dumped half a bucket of water in the hole just to empty it out. It soaked in! Even the little bit that didn't go in immediately soaked in within a few minutes! So I have real soil under the band of construction-crap-clay-and-rocks-backfill!

And lots of worms!

Wheeeee!

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