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  • From: KAKerby AT aol.com
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Setting ground posts, Driving in or Digging holes
  • Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 09:47:25 -0500 (EST)

I'm so jealous.  We've got a few thousand years' worth of leaf litter perched on terminal moraine and bedrock outcroppings, and every third post hole hits a rock too big to move.  So my posts have to move over instead.  My fencelines look like I was hitting the bottle more often than I was hitting the fence driver.  And we have sheets of bedrock here and there only 6"-12" down in places.  How the trees found enough purchase to hold themselves up is always a mystery to me.  Then there's the boulder in our first garden that we figured was about the size of a Volkswagen.  We just planted around it.  The "up" side is that during the last few mild to moderate earthquakes, we barely knew about it.  That bedrock doesn't move much.  So we just sink posts as best we can, anchor stuff above-ground as best we can, and thank the trees that they screen us from the worst of the winds.  But easy-dig soil free of obstacles sounds like such a fantasy to me now.
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com, where we grow the very best rocks
Snohomish, WA
 
In a message dated 12/1/2010 6:26:35 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, farmersue AT myfairpoint.net writes:

We have sandy soil. We had to set each post into concrete, after putting it up and then having it shift. We learned the hard way.

Sue

Vermont

 

 



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