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About 15 years ago I dug out around the whole foundation and re-parged and sealed the walls, and put a drain field in. So water shouldn’t be lying there forever, but with all the repeated snow/thaw cycles we’ve had this winter who knows what’s happening just beneath the surface. I’ve seen thickets out back get totally mashed to the ground due to heavy snows (didn’t kill them though). But even with the additional snow rolling off the panels and onto the flowerbeds… I never saw that compound into anything that looked like it stressed those plants.
I’ve never seen any puddling out front, but the front flowerbeds don’t drain away from the house very well. If I have tear everything out and re-do them I’ll build them up slightly to make sure they do drain away. Still very odd that it’s only the bushes directly in front of the house and not the two feet that extend to the side of the house. The root system IS in front of the house for the two feet of bush that extends out the side. That’s why I was thinking at first it could be some chemicals coming off the panels.
If this was solar panel related I’d think that certainly one of you would have experienced the same thing. So maybe just a bad combination of things that did them in.
I’ve never seen any puddling out front, but the front flowerbeds don’t drain away from the house very well. If I have tear everything out and re-do them I’ll build them up slightly to make sure they do drain away. Still very odd that it’s only the bushes directly in front of the house and not the two feet that extend to the side of the house. The root system IS in front of the house for the two feet of bush that extends out the side. That’s why I was thinking at first it could be some chemicals coming off the panels.
If this was solar panel related I’d think that certainly one of you would have experienced the same thing. So maybe just a bad combination of things that did them in.
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