Florida · Florida Peninsula · limestone country
Where your water goes
Your sub-basin
Southern Florida
then
Atlantic Ocean Seaboard
It arrives here
Atlantic Ocean
Everything that falls here works its way east and north to the Atlantic. It is the drainage that carried the fur trade inland and the log drives back out, and the one Atlantic salmon and American eel still use — the eel travelling the whole length of it to spawn in the Sargasso Sea.
Basin 030902 (USGS hydrologic unit)
The river right now
78%
of the ten-year median for this date · 73.5 m³/s against 94.8 normally
normalAbout what it should be for the date. The river is doing its ordinary work — sorting gravel, feeding its banks and moving fish around at the pace everything in it is adapted to. It is dropping, roughly 11% over the week ahead.
Under your feet
About 4 million years old — after the dinosaurs, as mammals and grasslands spread.
All the kinds of rock, and how each one forms →
Shelly sediments of Plio-Pleistocene age · Late Pliocene
Bedrock and soil figures are modelled from national geological surveys and global soil mapping, at a resolution of a few hundred metres — right for the shape of a district, not for a particular garden. River discharge is modelled, not gauged. For anything that matters, dig a hole and look.
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The soil it made
What that means
The sweet spot for a vegetable garden. Nearly every nutrient is at its most available somewhere in this band, which is why it is the number every soil guide tells you to aim at.
Happy here without a fight
Almost everything: tomatoes, beans, squash, lettuce, apples, most perennials and most lawn grasses.
If you want the rest
Nothing needed. Compost keeps it here; heavy lime would push it past useful.
Working it
Water runs straight through, so it dries fast and warms early — you can work it days after rain and sow ahead of heavier ground, but it needs watering and feeding more often because both wash out.