Do you find the flooded fruits , produce fruit later can be good extending the season.
I was going to ask before you brought up Muscadine grapes ,
but the grapes being submerged in clayish soil I see that with the wild grapes here . (vitis riparia) river bank grape)
What is your experience Galatians with grapes ? or are they all flooded .
I think late past 2 weeks, but cannot remember exactly I think like a month later somewhere around there.
Before you brought it up I was curious what Frog valley Farm thought
Do the Mango tree's , and other fruit delay fruit ripening ?
if so I think that can be a good thing to extend the fresh fruit season.
When I started planting here I mowed religiously and had neat mulched circles around each tree. It looked exactly like your place. I planted 100s of 3 gal grafted trees mulched with hay, wood chips, cow manure. We always had standing water everywhere after rains and it seemed like zero growing results on too much stuff. I had been taking a bunch of soil health classes and it eventually clicked and I then decided I would make a type of swale with logs and let the grass grow in that area with logs just to catch the water. I soon noticed that all the trees with the tall grass around them started growing and the trees I mowed near didn’t grow so I stopped mowing except edges and paths. I also discovered that in problem areas if I intercropped more trees and crops like ginger that all trees did better. No more huge areas of standing water even after 4” today. Anyway good luck with your project, I look forward to seeing your farm evolve.
As soon as I stopped mowing I was canceled by homeowners insurance, and questioned by all why I stopped taking care of my trees. Uh, because it works the trees don’t die and it controls the heavy rains we get which makes things grow here. Lol
OH edit, and with wild grapes there is research to back that up someplace
that water logged vines can ripen fruit later ..