Perhaps if you can build an artificial deep pond/water reservoir which you can use to water the trees ? If I was there, I'd have helped you. Very beautiful.
I notice you have black irrigation hoses on the grass. I have those too and it's a pain in the ar*se mowing or brush cutting around them. I have thin feeder spray lines running from the main hose to my individual trees or guilds but I don't know how many times I have cut the thin line at the base. I don't like to bury the larger black hoses as it would become impossible to find a leak should one occur. If they sit on the surface of the chips or grass, you can spot a 'spurt'
Yes, I usually lift my mowing deck when I drive over them and brush cut around it. One day I'll burry the green lines but I will keep the low density poly pipe above ground because they get squashed by tree roots over the years. So the leaks are not really the issue but blockages due to roots growing all around them.
@@gaiasgardeninkuranda thanks for your reply. I use a residential battery operated lawn mower. I stop and start it each time I encounter a hose but then have to go back and clean up the strip of grass that lies beneath it. My problems aren't on the scale of yours but I understand your frustration.
I'm curious, do you find a large growth difference in plants near the swales compared to those in other areas of your property? I only live a few minutes away from you and find my soil to be too wet if anything, my block is largely rainforest though and doesn't get the sun that yours does.
Hi mate, yes everything I've planted on the swales grows at least 2 as fast as the trees that are not on the swales. The bananas love them too. Our top soil is really thin and not very fertile, the subsoil has a very low pH and is therefore hostile to plant roots. So one of the reasons for the increased plant growth is, that the berms have twice as much top soil as the rest of the property. And also, my fruit trees need as much water as they can get because we only get about 2000mm of rain here. That's actually not all that much.
Thanks for allowing us your insight so we won't repeat the same mistakes
Perhaps if you can build an artificial deep pond/water reservoir which you can use to water the trees ? If I was there, I'd have helped you. Very beautiful.
I notice you have black irrigation hoses on the grass. I have those too and it's a pain in the ar*se mowing or brush cutting around them. I have thin feeder spray lines running from the main hose to my individual trees or guilds but I don't know how many times I have cut the thin line at the base. I don't like to bury the larger black hoses as it would become impossible to find a leak should one occur. If they sit on the surface of the chips or grass, you can spot a 'spurt'
Yes, I usually lift my mowing deck when I drive over them and brush cut around it. One day I'll burry the green lines but I will keep the low density poly pipe above ground because they get squashed by tree roots over the years. So the leaks are not really the issue but blockages due to roots growing all around them.
@@gaiasgardeninkuranda thanks for your reply. I use a residential battery operated lawn mower. I stop and start it each time I encounter a hose but then have to go back and clean up the strip of grass that lies beneath it. My problems aren't on the scale of yours but I understand your frustration.
I'm curious, do you find a large growth difference in plants near the swales compared to those in other areas of your property?
I only live a few minutes away from you and find my soil to be too wet if anything, my block is largely rainforest though and doesn't get the sun that yours does.
Hi mate, yes everything I've planted on the swales grows at least 2 as fast as the trees that are not on the swales. The bananas love them too. Our top soil is really thin and not very fertile, the subsoil has a very low pH and is therefore hostile to plant roots. So one of the reasons for the increased plant growth is, that the berms have twice as much top soil as the rest of the property. And also, my fruit trees need as much water as they can get because we only get about 2000mm of rain here. That's actually not all that much.
Word to mind here is Erosion.