Carolina Gardening: The rain dance worked!, 1 by donnacreation

donnacreation wrote:
I feel your pain, ardesia. Although my yard received 1.6" of rain in less than an hour, the pic of it gushing through the drainage pipe tells the story. Most of it quickly found it's way into the nearby swamp/stream. My ground remained as hard as concrete, but the mosquito population exploded! Ain't life cruel?

This morning, I just about killed myself digging a hole for a j. magnolia in this area - nothing but dry, crusty soil over 2' deep.