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Plans for a test garden?
- Thread starter Papalalo
- Start date
When I made my test garden I went to walmart and they had a bag of golf tee"s with different colors. Then I made map of my yard and measured the distance between each golf tee. I'm old and I forget things. On the little map I listed the color and location with the different depths and type of coin under that golf tee. I also buried junk like and old bottle (1) cap, (2)tinfoil, (3) a cheap ring. This will give you a way to set your detector and make sure you don't tune anything out and hear what junk sound like.
floridason
New member
Hi papalalo, Yes, I made me a coin garden about a year ago. And the longer you leave the coins etc in the ground the more it acts and looks like what you would find in the terrain you might hunt in. I put some coins/trash close together and some shallow, up to 4" down and some as deep as 12" down. I measured each space between the coins/trash, whatever, and made a map, anotated the coin or whatever at each sight I used from a silver dollar down to a 1 cent piece. Some silver some clad, also a gold necklace, silver and gold rings. (I keep the map hidden and my wife still wanders where some of her jewelry went to.
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I've checked it out several times and it helped me find out something was wrong with my older MXT as it wouldn't pick the coins, etc like it used to and sent it into
Whites and found out that a ground wire had loosened up. Got it back and it works fine now. Hope this helps out, but coin gardens are good to have.(JMHO)
Thanks for looking. KC
floridason
retired
2 MXT's, DX-1, lotsa coils
) I've checked it out several times and it helped me find out something was wrong with my older MXT as it wouldn't pick the coins, etc like it used to and sent it into
Whites and found out that a ground wire had loosened up. Got it back and it works fine now. Hope this helps out, but coin gardens are good to have.(JMHO)
Thanks for looking. KC
floridason
retired2 MXT's, DX-1, lotsa coils
[size=medium]I put in a test garden of relics and a few nails. I marked down the depth I put each item at and what it is. I used a 1" plastic cap for pvc pipe and painted them orange for a marker. I compare my different detectors using the garden and to help learn the sounds for any new detector I buy. I have found a few things that really surprised me. One thing that a 69 cal. minie at 10" does not read as well as a 58 cal. at 8". I realize they haven't been buried for more than a few months but you'd think the extra amount of lead on the 69 cal. would still make it sing out with only 2" difference. Another thing that is scary is a US boxplate I buried at a mier 15" laying flat can only be detected with a diggable signal is my Minelab3500 and my TDI. I might mistake it with the TDI because of the type of reading. Everything else I've tried like MXT, Nautilus, Blue & Gray, Infinium just either miss it completely or it an undiggable signal. It's really hard to tell how many buckles are still in the ground and really not that deep that are passed over. [/size]
Hi Guys
I read about how a freshly buried coin will not produce a good signal and target id in some of White's own literature many years ago. White's said that the breaking up of the gound matrix is what causes the problem. I planted a garden about fifteen years ago using real dug up silver coins, buffalo nickles and a gold ring. I waited till the ground was saturated well with spring rains and after the ground had dried to a consistancy where I coud take my sharpshooter and stick it the ground and pull it back up without mud clinging to it. My lawn is bermuda grass with heavy clay soil, and by taking plugs out carefully I could retain the original soil matrix down to about eight inch solid plugs.I buried the gold ring first at about six inches and in a straight line continued with the buffalo nickles (2) then the silver dimes at 6 inches (4) getting deeper as the line went along. Then I started with quarters then halfs and finally two silver dollars with the last one at over a foot deep. After I planted them, the new garden got a whole lot of rain for a couple of months. It turned out great
everything I planted sounded good and ID'ed well, except one buffalo and it was hidden by some iron. My XLT could not find it,then several years later my DFX could'nt find it either(Stock coils) Only hitting the buffalo from several angles could I get a signal on it.with the 5.3 bullseye coil.. I was lucky that the iron masked buffalo was the only coin I planted next to iron. I had hunted the area in disc but not in all-metal before planting the garden. I have some friends that like to sweep out the garden time to time to check out their detectors in it. The hardest target for any detector tried there is the iron Buffalo, My IDX Pro with the 5.3 bullseye coil gets it every time. Now that I have a well establihed garden...... it it is interesting to insert into the soil above the coins various surface trash to see what it does to the signal. I will tell you that a 3 inch rusty square nail placed just several inches below the surface and above a deep coin will mask the signal if running with small nail discrimination.
Randy
I read about how a freshly buried coin will not produce a good signal and target id in some of White's own literature many years ago. White's said that the breaking up of the gound matrix is what causes the problem. I planted a garden about fifteen years ago using real dug up silver coins, buffalo nickles and a gold ring. I waited till the ground was saturated well with spring rains and after the ground had dried to a consistancy where I coud take my sharpshooter and stick it the ground and pull it back up without mud clinging to it. My lawn is bermuda grass with heavy clay soil, and by taking plugs out carefully I could retain the original soil matrix down to about eight inch solid plugs.I buried the gold ring first at about six inches and in a straight line continued with the buffalo nickles (2) then the silver dimes at 6 inches (4) getting deeper as the line went along. Then I started with quarters then halfs and finally two silver dollars with the last one at over a foot deep. After I planted them, the new garden got a whole lot of rain for a couple of months. It turned out great
everything I planted sounded good and ID'ed well, except one buffalo and it was hidden by some iron. My XLT could not find it,then several years later my DFX could'nt find it either(Stock coils) Only hitting the buffalo from several angles could I get a signal on it.with the 5.3 bullseye coil.. I was lucky that the iron masked buffalo was the only coin I planted next to iron. I had hunted the area in disc but not in all-metal before planting the garden. I have some friends that like to sweep out the garden time to time to check out their detectors in it. The hardest target for any detector tried there is the iron Buffalo, My IDX Pro with the 5.3 bullseye coil gets it every time. Now that I have a well establihed garden...... it it is interesting to insert into the soil above the coins various surface trash to see what it does to the signal. I will tell you that a 3 inch rusty square nail placed just several inches below the surface and above a deep coin will mask the signal if running with small nail discrimination.Randy
Thisoldgoldchaser
New member
I think it may have been mentioned, but make sure you sweep your garden with your detector in all metal mode before you plant anything. Or if you are wanting to do it before your detector gets in, then borrow someones if you can and do that. You need to know exactly what is in there before you plant...and remove anything that you find. You gotta start with a clean slate. You can plant trash and other stuff so that you get a good allaround selection of what you will find once you go out.
You can mark your garden, each item...golf tee's are a good thing to use, but dont last long and are easily kicked around and out of the ground. If you make a map, that will work well, but make sure you have a good beginning and end landmark. On the map and at the garden. Some folks will drive a stake to mark each item they bury. Doesnt have to be right at the item, but 5 to 7 inches to the side.
Just adding some ideas. Good luck.
You can mark your garden, each item...golf tee's are a good thing to use, but dont last long and are easily kicked around and out of the ground. If you make a map, that will work well, but make sure you have a good beginning and end landmark. On the map and at the garden. Some folks will drive a stake to mark each item they bury. Doesnt have to be right at the item, but 5 to 7 inches to the side.
Just adding some ideas. Good luck.