You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: The Wettest Day our Homestead has ever Experienced (Probably)
The purpose of permaculture as described in its' principles is to store and capture energy, not to run it off of your homestead... Sorry if it feels like I'm bashing you but I'm sure that your nursery trees would be happy to have another swale :) Thanks for these photos and your story of life in Wales- here in Texas it snowed three times this winter - which is also quite bizarre! @lonestarpoet
@lonestarpoet Yes we do store and capture water, but to be honest we get too much of it. There is no point making Swales because the ground has enough water anyway, and they could be washed away over time. So instead we try and channel a lot of the water away because we get around 2m of rainfall a year:)
Dear @huwsnursery. In case you do have to much water and need to divert it, it is reasonable to invest in a one in a lifetime solution by sopling your diversion drains very gently at 1:300 to1:500 and zig-ziging them through your plot with level sill spillways on the direction changes, so that you don't have soil loss through erosion and having to repair them after every bigger rainfall.
What @my-permaculture is describing is what I think would be most wise, but that's just my 2 steems :)
Thanks for sharing your pictures ! I wanna visit lol.