North Mississippi Delta / Alabama Gulf Coast | My fields have deep grown up ditches around the property boundaries like most in the Delta.
There are spots that hold water and don’t drain off since we are flat here.
I dug short ditches with backhoe straight out fron overgrown ditch to create a drain basin that I can back into with a subsoiler with a 4” pig attached.
By getting the pig in the bottom of the ditch, it will create drain channels to the wet areas that will last about 2 seasons. They get refreshed before any fieldwork is done.
I can create a natural ditch by running a small pan over the subsoiled ground right after plowing as it ‘blows’ the ground up and is easy to scrape off. When it all settles, a small depression is left that carries off lots of surface water.
Also will pull in a big wire or conduit two feet deep.
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Ditching ground to drain does it work?
