Subject: Re: [Homestead] Gypsum was Tillers...was Soil
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:11:29 -0800 (PST)
You are describing how we dig caliche. 'so hard you can't dig with a
pick-axe, but throw on the hose for a day, and turn it with a spade,
barefoot. It is a wonder anything can grow roots in this hard*ss
stuff.....................
--- On Mon, 1/26/09, Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> This adobe is a little tougher. I wet a spot and using a
> pick cut a small
> depression then filled that with water. I could get
> sometimes as much as
> two inches that way but usually less. The best time to dig
> is after some
> rains but I did not have the correct timing nor the time to
> do 1200' so
> power was the way to go. Still it took two days to dig the
> post holes.
>