"Reg Edwards" wrote in message
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Jimmie wrote -

12 12f t wires, Center ground stake 10 ft long, far end of each wire has
a
stake about 3 ft long. These are used more to just hold the wires in
place.

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Jimmie, For amusement and my education, would you mind letting us have a
few
more crude details of your ground radial system please.

TYPE OF SOIL

(A) Is it high quality, fertilised garden loam, perhaps very slightly
sandy
which can grow flowers and shrubs of which you can be proud when you try.
Perhaps used to be farm or orchard or agricultural land.

(B) Is it slightly gritty, stoney, but ample body which can still make a
nice flower garden. Quite fertile even though it may be overgrown with
profuse, dense, robust weeds. (Like mine.)

XXXX (C) Is it sandy, clayey, with small stones or pebbles? Needs
attention with
fertilisers to grow nice flowers. But a lawn might do very well.

(D) Does it contain stones, sand, grit and small rocks with only 75% of
good soil but still needs hoeing and weeding to keep looking presentable.?

(E) Is it poor soil, smewhat infertile, difficult to manage as a flower
garden? Could be turned into a rock garden. Even the weeds don't do very
well.

(F) Thin layer of mediocre soil over bedrock.

MOISTURE CONTENT

(G) Fairly wet.
(H) Nicely moist.
X (I) Slightly damp.
(J) Well drained, dry.
(K) Dusty.
(L) Arid.

ROUGH DEPTH OF WIRE BURIAL.
1 inch

In tenths of an inch if very shallow.
Zero if just trodden in, in good contact with soil surface.

Thank you.
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Reg.


Soil is kind of a strang brew. when the house was built there was quite a
hill here that was leveled off. When the top soil was put back they put down
the top soil with about a foot of clay over it. So I have a foot of clay a
foot or so of top soil and more clay. Top layer of clay can get faily dry
while the layer of topsoil and underlying clay stay fairly moist. Grass and
trees grow fairl well and I never have to water them. Sometimes the grass
browns when we have drought conditions but the fruit trees always seem to do
well. I susppect this is because they can reach the underlying moisture.