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[quote=Anonymous][quote]In my experience, I cut down the trees in my backyard for a garden. Now the sun dries the ground out faster allowing it to soak up excess rain water. Before that it flowed into my neighbors yard and at times flooded my basement. I grew up on a farm and soil dynamics still puzzle me. [/quote] I did not grow up on a farm so you probably know more. However, in the DMV, we have a lot of clay and maybe where you are you don't. Here you have to build up the soil on top and that happens through plant decay mostly (unless you truck in topsoil). Chemicals impede the process of building up that layer. Once you get good topsoil and plantings it may be that you solve some of your runoff problems without having trees around. Maybe that is what happened in your case (you may have added soil for your garden so things would grow there). I agree that it's complex. [/quote]
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