Botanical_Bryce

I have the same problem here. The only solution I have come up with making the soil not so compact and dense. I use lots of biochar and organic stuff like leaves and wood chips. In my worst areas around my home that would have standing water for days no longer holds any water and all I did was dig the holes deeper and then fill in the holes with charcoal. I could have used rocks but I think even rocks can be too dense and if I want to dig there in the future to plant I still can. With the cone pit biochar method I can even make charcoal in the holes.

I thought the bananas would have been a good idea but out of 50 varieties only Orinoco seems to stand up to the water but it does not help dry the ground at all. Most of the bananas suffered from the moist soil. If not for loosening the dense soil I almost think most would have simply rotted.