My second graders in Missouri are learning about erosion and erosion control. This video gave them a real world example of what they have been learning. Thank you.
Madre cacao is also used for living fences here in the Philippines. You can occasionally chop and drop them for green mulch and they'll bounce back within a few months.
The Gliricidia stakes and living plants are a good approach as using debris alone won't last long. An Australian study trying to reduce gully erosion compared stick dams like the debris you used, with rock dams, and found the rock damns, most of which were only one rock high, were much more effective long-term, and filtered the water along the way to rivers. There are a lot of examples of swales overflowing during heavy downpour and creating erosion on RUclips. Making sure the overflow outlet of swales is wide enough to sheet excess water away slowly is important to reduce the creation of new gullys and erosion.
Thanks Craig for the info. Yes, the permanence of the line is important. Here on a larger scale we are using lines of Gliricidia stakes on contour, with the idea being to pollard them back every few months, dropping the cut branches above the lines as a debris fence, which will be continuously buffered with the next wave of cut branches as the gliricidia trunks thicken over time, hopefully holding everything in place and forming terraces of deep soil that also allows for drainage/absorption. Also, along these lines we are planting Bamboo, our future principle crop, which should further help create permanent erosion control lines.
That is literally the best and simplest explanation of how to control water and erosion on a hill I have seen. I have been reading about jow to fix my issues with run off for so long and that just makes it so clear! Thank you
Excellent vid, thx. been using this technique below a few nice-sized trees to fight soil eroding on our wooded lot. You've inspired me to extend them further across the slopes. Best wishes. Good job.
My second graders in Missouri are learning about erosion and erosion control. This video gave them a real world example of what they have been learning. Thank you.
Just the facts. Straight forward and to the point.
In areas where the light level is greater one might consider vetiver grass hedgerows.
Simple, Effective, Affordable, Noninvasive, Natural. Excellent
Madre cacao is also used for living fences here in the Philippines. You can occasionally chop and drop them for green mulch and they'll bounce back within a few months.
The Gliricidia stakes and living plants are a good approach as using debris alone won't last long. An Australian study trying to reduce gully erosion compared stick dams like the debris you used, with rock dams, and found the rock damns, most of which were only one rock high, were much more effective long-term, and filtered the water along the way to rivers.
There are a lot of examples of swales overflowing during heavy downpour and creating erosion on RUclips. Making sure the overflow outlet of swales is wide enough to sheet excess water away slowly is important to reduce the creation of new gullys and erosion.
Thanks Craig for the info. Yes, the permanence of the line is important.
Here on a larger scale we are using lines of Gliricidia stakes on contour, with the idea being to pollard them back every few months, dropping the cut branches above the lines as a debris fence, which will be continuously buffered with the next wave of cut branches as the gliricidia trunks thicken over time, hopefully holding everything in place and forming terraces of deep soil that also allows for drainage/absorption.
Also, along these lines we are planting Bamboo, our future principle crop, which should further help create permanent erosion control lines.
That is literally the best and simplest explanation of how to control water and erosion on a hill I have seen. I have been reading about jow to fix my issues with run off for so long and that just makes it so clear! Thank you
Brilliant! Absolutely love the simplicity of these techniques! (y)
Very practical and informative and fast! Thanks
Thank you so much for the simple and on point video, Sir. Thank you so much 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤
Excellent vid, thx. been using this technique below a few nice-sized trees to fight soil eroding on our wooded lot. You've inspired me to extend them further across the slopes. Best wishes. Good job.
In the Philippines we also use madre de cacao for fencing and for soil erosion control..
Useful information. Thank you
Very good video. You have made it to the point, giving due consideration to the importance of viewers time restraints
Very simple and useful. Thank you.
Simple and very effective means of erosion control. Appreciated the efforts taken to educate others. Keep up the good work. Keep smiling.
I love the idea! It is applicable here in the Philippines as we are in mountainous geography.
Seems almost everyone in the mountains have madre cacao.
I've just ordered seeds to plant on my farm in Australia into swale berms. Thank you :)
Thank you for your video .I learned a lot
Good job 👍
Very good advice.
Very nice!!
thanks brother❤❤
Please share longer video for controlling erosion
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add vetiver to your control measures
why not plant lemongrass ?? and fibrous root plants ??
Water filtration.
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