Sandbags Around Girls to Protect From Standing Water

BrewersToker

BrewersToker

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Wisconsin has been in the crosshairs for heavy rains now for close to two weeks. Complete ground saturation. Another 2.5 inches of rain forecast for the next 36. Pretty much guarantees standing water in my garden again. I cannot stand another day + of seeing my girls in an inch of standing water!!

I have sandbags and I was thinking of a perimeter around the girls to provide some defense against a pond forming around them. Anyone ever try this with success? Just trying to be a loving daddy to my garden girls!
 
ganga gurl420

ganga gurl420

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BrewersToker said:
Wisconsin has been in the crosshairs for heavy rains now for close to two weeks. Complete ground saturation. Another 2.5 inches of rain forecast for the next 36. Pretty much guarantees standing water in my garden again. I cannot stand another day + of seeing my girls in an inch of standing water!!

I have sandbags and I was thinking of a perimeter around the girls to provide some defense against a pond forming around them. Anyone ever try this with success? Just trying to be a loving daddy to my garden girls!
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I don't know if that would work for you or against you to tell you the truth.

Last grow we had massive floods here and I thought for sure my girls would drown (they were in ground)
I had to dig a hole in the corner of their soils so water could pool up and I could remove the water with a bucket.
I removed almost 50 gallons a day of water from each plant for almost a week.
(This is exactly why I am above ground this yr)
 
BrewersToker

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I might ride it out, just so stressful! I might dig some deep drainage areas this morning to move the water away from them. I really dont want to move 8-10 sanbags from my garage to the plants.

Just brainstorming....

Could dig some deep collection holes and use the wetvac to drain those collection areas.
 
Herb & Suds

Herb & Suds

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BrewersToker said:
I might ride it out, just so stressful! I might dig some deep drainage areas this morning to move the water away from them. I really dont want to move 8-10 sanbags from my garage to the plants.

Just brainstorming....

Could dig some deep collection holes and use the wetvac to drain those collection areas.
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I would at least trench to collection areas ...moist ground shouldn't be too difficult
 
ganga gurl420

ganga gurl420

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BrewersToker said:
I might ride it out, just so stressful! I might dig some deep drainage areas this morning to move the water away from them. I really dont want to move 8-10 sanbags from my garage to the plants.

Just brainstorming....

Could dig some deep collection holes and use the wetvac to drain those collection areas.
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I would have used a pump or other means if I could get electricity to my grow.
 
BrewersToker

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I have a patch of broccoli that never made it (cabbage worms) next to the girls. I can dig them out and I will have a huge drainage area to route standing water to.
 
TacoMac

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Pal, you're screwed. Even if you make a border with concrete, the ground is a sponge. It's going to get in.

The only way on earth it's going to work is if you have the room between plants to build a sump. Then you can make your sand bag perimeter, dig a sump about 2.5 to 3 feet deep and put a bildge/sump pump in it and run the hose at least 30 feet away from the area, preferably down hill.

That's a lot to go through though.
 
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LordRalh3

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If you can get electric to your area a small sump pump laughs at most amounts of water , doesnt take much to throw one in a bucket in a new hole



-edit. unless the whole area is gonna be flooded for 30 feet around i wouldnt even consider a wall or berm id just use the pump to move standing water
 
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BrewersToker

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My plants are thriving after the latest round of saturation. I'm leaning towards just riding it out again, and using the wetvac if necessary. Standing water for a day is not hurting anything really, it is just keeping me from feeding them. They look so beautiful this morning, I'm gonna let nature nature. The plants aren't going to float away!!
 
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LordRalh3

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Thats always an option just keep in mind that its the exact same as you playing in a pool with your head underwater. Its fun and beautiful for quite awhile but just a few seconds past the point of your air reserves going down to far and your dead...its the same thing for your plant just slower
 
BrewersToker

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If I wake up at 6am to an inch of water in my garden, it is normally gone by 3pm that day. I would be more concerned if it was standing water for 3 days or more. That is not the case here. I have had standing water 4 times this summer. It never lasted more than a day. I am more upset about not being able to feed than I am about the water at this point.
 
Herb & Suds

Herb & Suds

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BrewersToker said:
If I wake up at 6am to an inch of water in my garden, it is normally gone by 3pm that day. I would be more concerned if it was standing water for 3 days or more. That is not the case here. I have had standing water 4 times this summer. It never lasted more than a day. I am more upset about not being able to feed than I am about the water at this point.
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If it helps mine are as dry as popcorn and I can't water enough , I just keep wasting nutrients :hug:
 
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