What's the Science behind digging a hole?

[sdef]

To add to this quandary--I dig a hole for a tree that is in a 5 gallon pot. Put the tree in the hole and STILL do not have enough dirt to fill the hole back up level

Yep. Did that twice earlier this year in my very hard, clay soil.

 

[teejk]

Ha, ha, ha, ha. Really funny and is the only thing that makes sense in my experience. But I do like the waxing and waning moon stuff also

I was being serious! My guess is that it's the marketers of mole traps behind all this...see a mound, go buy a trap! I think that explains why I rarely catch a mole (yeah...they throw one in once and awhile just to give you hope and keep you buying traps...probably a mole that had lost his will to live I think). :laughing:

 

[Wagtail]

Somewhere on the other side of the globe somebody is wondering where all those hills are coming from?

BRILLIANT! :thumbsup:

 

[Oldpath05]

"What's the Science behind digging a hole?"<<<<<It might help if you watch more educational movies like this>>>>>
Two Kinds Of People - YouTube

 

[prichard]

When we dig a hole, then fill it back in, there's always more dirt mounding over it.... you have to account for the space the body takes up.

Love it

 

[MossRoad]

That works great until the body rots down, and then you have a depression marking where you put the Revenuer.

Head first in a pine grove....

 

[teejk]

Head first in a pine grove....

taking notes (for a friend). Thanks!

 

[MossRoad]

Yes, I heard all that from friends of friends, too. :thumbsup:

 

[k0ua]

Yes, I heard all that from friends of friends, too. :thumbsup:

A "real friend" is someone who will come out and help you dispose of a body with no questions asked. He preferably owns a TLB.

 

[2ndhalf]

One man says to his friend "Let's play a game. I'll ask myself a question and if I can answer it - you have to pay me a quarter. Then you'll get your turn." His friend, thinking this sounds like a strange game, agrees to try it. The man says to himself "How can a groundhog dig a hole without leaving any dirt outside of the hole? That's easy, he exclaims - the groundhog can start digging from the inside." "How can the groundhog start digging from the inside?" exclaims his friend. "I don't know, but that's your question." replies the man.

This is a very funny quote. GHs generally have two holes.. one is the starting hole the other is the finishing hole (no dirt around the hole) they all = your soybeans are gone.