torrent wrote:My glass of land population has increased significantly since the start. Much is quite subjective, but I think there is enough to start draining the soil a little.
Warning: not all worms are "effective". There is a certain probability that they are the epigés, those that I call the "wankers", in the sense that, apart from breaking down organic matter to feed themselves, and "pissing off" ammoniacal nitrogen, they do not much effective. And above all, no galleries ...
I maintain my fear that your sensors will upset the "anecics", the useful worms therefore, those which dig vertical galleries, which contribute to the improvement of air and soil circulation; of the structuring of the soil ... They "flee" the surface cold in winter by burying themselves at a depth where it is more or less 12 °. This is exactly where you get your calories by "freezing" (more or less) your soil ...
For me, the explanation of the accumulating water could be explained by the absence of deep galleries.
In your clay soil, would there be? I do not know. But there, it may be a little more complicated.
Ditto for some "perforating" plants thanks to deep taproots: alfalfa, rumex, comfrey ... When one of these roots dies, it creates a natural gallery. There, I fear that they do not cross the "cold front".
Please note: this does not mean that it will not work! A vegetable garden is not binary: it is not either perfect or dramatic. There is a whole range of shades of gray depending on the number of parameters that we manage to optimize or not!
You just got there,
perhaps, an annoyance. You have to observe finely. For this, the same practices made in an area without sensors could perhaps have been used!
Perhaps this is one of those situations where making mounds is not fundamentally silly: flow of excess water to the sides; increase the thickness so move away from the sensors ...
(half less than last year, but I'll be happy with it).
