Manitoba · Boreal North & Taiga
Where your water goes
Your sub-basin
Grass and Burntwood
then
Nelson River
It arrives here
Hudson Bay
An enormous, cold, inland sea is the destination — water from here flows north rather than south, which surprises most people who look at a map for the first time. It is ice-covered for much of the year, so the whole system is on a short, violent, snowmelt-driven schedule.
Basin 05T (Canadian sub-drainage area)
The river right now
97%
of the ten-year median for this date · 1,121 m³/s against 1,155.1 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 steady through the week ahead.
Under your feet
About 2.5 billion years old — laid down before anything with a shell or a backbone existed.
All the kinds of rock, and how each one forms →
Metamorphic Supracrustal Rocks · Proterozoic
Paleoproterozoic sedimentary · Paleoproterozoic
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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Archean intrusive rocks · Neoarchean
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
Holds water and nutrients well and gives them up slowly. It is cold and late in spring, and it will set like concrete if you work it wet — so wait until it crumbles rather than smears.