Fifteen buckets of soil!!!
Sounds like it's about time for some swales :D
Wish I was close by. Digging is fun, and digging swales is double fun.
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Fifteen buckets of soil!!!
Sounds like it's about time for some swales :D
Wish I was close by. Digging is fun, and digging swales is double fun.
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I think his land is fairly rocky....so digging mini swales may not be fun...
But they are the same solution I was thinking of.
Maybe mini gabion swales made from the surplus rocks.
For anyone that doesnt know...
Swales are ditches on contour(level...not following the slope down)
The water fills up a swale, deposits any soil load and then seeps into the ground. Or, if they fill up, slowly and evenly pours over the sill or the level top.
Only drawback is they can make cutting hay, or brush hogging, more difficult.
Another use for swales is planting trees in the burm(the down hill side). That makes the swale a very stable, long term, errosion prevention feature.
Ooh, the rock swales are a really great idea. Perhaps more of a fishscale swale system.
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