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What to plant here pt 2?

JohnAndSancho
JohnAndSancho
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Welp I kinda wanted to put either my 3g Sabal Mexicana or a small banana here. We've had about 3" of rain this week and honestly everything (ignore the weeds) looked ok until I hit the clay about 8" down. I dug another 7 or 8 inches and the water goes nowhere. I know it'll be a different story in summer when it's 95° and not raining, and this part of the yard slopes into a firebreak ditch that's also full of water and there's still big chunks of the yard with standing water. 

 

Anyway what goes in this hole? Tbh I'm thinking a catfish at this point. Praise jeebus the front yard isn't this bad. IMG_20260310_162122.thumb.jpg.89f1b4d7ae1b27717b70363bebbf6089.jpg

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    Welp I wanted to see how fast it was gonna drain and we got 2 more inches of rain so that poses a problem. 

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    Bananas will love all that water. Maybe put some lily pads in there too.

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    Elephant ears John-o!

    They'll get ginormous with all that water 

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    11 hours ago, N8ALLRIGHT said:

    Elephant ears John-o!

    They'll get ginormous with all that water 

    Buddy the ones you sent me got ginormous in a tote under shop lights with NO water lol. I'm waiting on some Thai Giant bulbs to sprout and they're apparently swamp dwellers, anything else I'm gonna have to fill the hole in and mound plant. 

     

    18 hours ago, TropicsEnjoyer said:

    Bananas will love all that water. Maybe put some lily pads in there too.

    It's probably too much water for most of the ones I'm growing. Unless I mound plant. 

     

    Anyway I pulled some weeds and grass and threw them in the hole. I dug as deep as I could handle (both physically and with my spade) and that water ain't going nowhere.. more on the way! 

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    Bald Cypress 

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