On a lighter note - describing my soil

[Orkine]

So I was watering the other day, its been very dry, and whatever I put on the ground just disappears.
As I watched a thought crossed my mind.
My soil is really well drained except when it is flooded.
I couldn't help but laugh at how strange that came out, well drained and flooded.
The more I thought about it the less absurd it sounded.
A low lying well drained soil could be flooded.
So can I describe my soil as well drained except when flooded?
Which strange soil descriptions have you seen?

[Orkine]

Perhaps a little context, I have a canal or ditch to the back of my house, when the water level is low in the canal it drains my site.  When the water level is high, due to management or flooding from upstream coming through, it wets my land.  Right now, the water level in the canal is very low.  After Irma (actually worse in the storm right after) it was high, high enough to actually spill over and fish were swimming on parts of the yard.

[buddy roo]

what kind of FISH???   

[sahai1]

sounds like you have a lot of sand in the soil there.

your problem is with the water table not the drainage exactly.  Alot of trees can actually tolerate a high water table as long ad they fully drain during dry season, only really possible with sand in soil.

I saw at a friends property Duriiam amd Jackfruit 5 years old right on a large river bank which can flood 2-3 feet every year.  I couldn’t believe they survived.