Prevention & Treatment: Do not plant beans in low-lying, poorly drained areas. Plant beans on raised beds. Plant after the soil has warmed to 69 Â°F at a 4-inch depth. Reduce disease buildup in the soil by rotating locations in the garden where you plant bean or pea with other vegetables.
These collapses can be small, or, as this picture shows, or they can be huge and can occur where a house or road is on top. The most damage from sinkholes tends to occur in Florida, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania. The picture to the left shows a sinkhole that quickly opened up in Florida, apparently eating a swimming pool, some roadway, and buildings.
In addition, cover-collapse sinkholes have formed along roads or other areas where water is repeatedly released onto the ground, washing soil into underlying bedrock cavities and creating soil caves that can collapse. Salt mining has also created sinkholes. In 2008 two large sinkholes formed in southeastern New Mexico when cavities produced by brine well operationsâa process that injects fresh water into salt beds to make brine for use as drilling fluid in oil wellsâabruptly collapsed.