In one area, I have onions that need to stay where they are… but are perfectly happy to be flooded with water. In that case, I put in a divider and mounded the dirt high on the side of it that was vacant. When I water, the water will flow out of that area and into the onions, but they’re fine with this situation.

In another area, I couldn’t use that solution because the plants are water-sensitive — strawberries and push cucumbers. There were also tomatoes in that section. They don’t like being flooded … in fact, it killed the cukes.

What I ended up doing was leaving the tomatoes in place and transplanting the strawberry plant out temporarily along with most of it’s root ball. I might lose this growing season, but I won’t lose the plant… then I mounded the dirt as high as I could, burying the tomato plants a bit (they lost about four inches of stem, but they’ll root out along that four inches, so I just gained four inches of root depth and a lot of wind stability…) and then replanted the strawberry right in the middle of a nice big hill.

I’ll have pictures soon. It’s been thunderstormy here, so I haven’t had the opportunity to be out digging much.