Avocado countdown: 19 days until the new trees arrive. Completing a deep irrigation on the existing trees before the system goes down for upgrades to support the youngsters, spreading mulch in the planting area.
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You're lucky to have free draining soil. Our soil is old leached slightly clayey consolidated dunes. A 'farmlet' so never soil prepped. Should have been deep ripped ripped, mole drained.
In some areas, highly organic top horizon with mulch has impeded drainage, low oxygen, wet.
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An avocado seedling in such an area started to wilt due to phytopthora. Trunk injections only slowed progression. As an experiment I have drilled half a dozen or so 900 mm/3 feet x 50mm/2 inch holes in the root zone to drain the top horizon.
Next step - your daikon idea!🤔👍
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Would it be too much effort to install a French drain around your grow field? It’s commonly used in buildings in areas with high water table.
Its a flat area with only a few seedlings - drain not worth it.
But back to basics with me - I will follow Chris' practice of cover crops to stabilise aggregates, open macropores, and daikon to drain wet top horizon.
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