Outdoor grow water table question

[Tead]

What would be the optimal water table depth for an outdoor grow area?
It would seem to me that the plants would get deep enough roots to take advantage of the always wet soil if the water table were only 1 or 2 feet deep?
Anybody have any experience here?

 

[joedaddy805]

Have you dug down to see how moist the soil is 1 or 2 feet down? Cause i water mine every other day or everyday if its hot. And mine are all growing outside.

 

[labexperiment]

Where I live the water table is usually 9-14 feet below the ground level.

Do a google search "city name + ground water level" to find your answer.

 

[Tead]

Sorry... should have mentioned. Believe it or not, a 2 foot hole will be very damp with a small pool of water at the bottom. Technical data shows it at about 2 feet as well.
I have some pretty fat babies with a trunk about the width of a soda can. I usually think of plants going down as far as they go up. This might indicate that I'm WELL into the water table. Of course... would the roots even grow into an area with that much moisture in it.... seems like a great source of some sort of root rot.

 

[David Bowman]

That sounds like bayou country and like it would be a mix of soil and hydro. I would say try one or two plants and see how they fare. If the roots don't like that much moisture, I would think that they would spread out more horizontally than normal instead of going too deep. As long as there is a large enough sutiable environment in the soil for the roots, then the plants should be happy.