sky of mind
Monday, 15 May 2006, 1:55 pm
QUOTE(POAC @ Monday, 15 May 2006, 12:48 pm) [snapback]56992[/snapback]
I'm glad you guys got a kick out of it. You can almost hear me going "vroooooooooommm vrooooooomm"
I suspect you don't have in your soil what we have around here.
It's great soil, but this is part of the ancient flood plain resulting from the Missoila floods, that created the Columbia Gorge.
It was caused by ice age ice dams all a sudden busting open, big chinks of glacier with rocks stuck in um floated down river with the floods, and when the reached quiet water, like here, they melted.
So the soil tends to be high in clay, stick clumpy when wet, and a lot of really big rocks.
Subdivisions now a days quit trying to carry them off, and simply stack them up at the entrance to use as landscaping! "Welcome to big rock neighborhood!"
Anyhow, it's always possible here to discover a biggun, even if it's not a new garden plot!
I tell you what! Hitting one of those big rocks with the rototiller will wake you right up in a hurry!