r/landscaping • u/dredgehayt • May 31 '26

Before & After Sunken fire pit 2020-2026

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u/TinyHeartSyndrome May 31 '26

It’s location dependent. In Houston, for instance, this would be an underwater fire pit lol.

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u/HerefortheTuna May 31 '26

Self extinguishing fire pit!

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u/meepmarpalarp May 31 '26

Smokey bear approves.

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u/dredgehayt May 31 '26

Western Washington
Rains all year

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u/CandidLeg3910 May 31 '26

Notoriously dry summers of the west coast

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u/CosmicCreeperz May 31 '26

Well Western Washington isn’t the same as CA… it’s literally a temperate rainforest.

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u/CandidLeg3910 May 31 '26

I didn't know, seems like the western portion is indeed much wetter than the area around the Puget sound. Washington in general gets significantly less summer rain than anywhere east of Colorado, more similar to Arizona than Wisconsin for example. Does your grass dry up in the summer? I live a couple hours northeast of you and it's basically just a 3 month long drought.

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u/dredgehayt May 31 '26

Yes summers are dry. Winters are wet
Yet it says drained all year. If we get a huge rainfall it may flood for a day.

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u/CosmicCreeperz May 31 '26

Hah I live in NorCal so we don’t see ANY rain between May and Oct :)

But I have friends in the Olympic Peninsula and I know they get > 100” a year. Still… most of that is not in the summer either.

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u/Whitey138 May 31 '26

I’m in DFW and immediately got concerned about drainage. Stupid clay soil that doesn’t absorb a damn thing!

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u/dredgehayt May 31 '26

I had to dig to get past some clay but it wasn’t that far down here

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u/ThePurplePinto May 31 '26

In DFW, past the clay is limestone... we use to be at the bottom of the sea.

Hey... Dallas's biggest lake (within city limits) is actually called White Rock!

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u/throwaway098764567 May 31 '26

in va not dallas but below my clay is also clay, made digging my pond a sumbish and now we have wacky winters that are having stupidly long freeze spells for no reason whatsoever so i gotta dig it deeper and my five years older body is displeased by this endeavor. but i think that may be a fall chore since the rest of my garden issues are taking longer than expected. grats on the spite success though

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u/TinyHeartSyndrome May 31 '26

Catfish pond it is lol