Why is it....

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Best answer.
It must depend on soil type.
The OP made no sense to me having dealt mostly with virgin red clay.
Try it with that.
It's exactly the opposite.
Around here you see people using tampers to get it all back and packed in.
 
Simple,
You're not putting enough bodies in the hole.
 
Best answer.
It must depend on soil type.
The OP made no sense to me having dealt mostly with virgin red clay.
Try it with that.
It's exactly the opposite.
Around here you see people using tampers to get it all back and packed in.

What dirt there is.....if you want to call it that...is of a sand-silt nature.
When I was in AZ we had a clay based soil. Had the same problem there. Can't spell what local folks called it but digging in it was a nightmare, had no rock to speak of but when hit with a pick you would get sparks...and a bouncing pick...lol...
 
When I dig post holes here in the south east coast, at 3 feet of digging, my hole fills over half way with water. It did the same thing in Nebraska.

didn't your foreman tell you your not supposed to pee on the post your planting?
 
didn't your foreman tell you your not supposed to pee on the post your planting?

When we lived in AZ we had several trees in the front yard. At one point the drip system took care of all of them. One of them that was close to the house had the emitter plug up. That tree got "watered" by me several times nightly...
 
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