As the water in the holes, prepared for planting our orchard of pecan trees, continued to rise, it became apparent we would have to take some drastic action to start draining the land.
With some mechanized help, which we had used to dig the holes we were able to also dig some test trenches to see what would be the most effective dewatering strategy.
A trench about a meter deep cutting across the contours proved most effective.
Much deeper and the sides would collapse and block the water from flowing freely.
The trenches were terminated before the end of the land in order to provide space for the water to for a mini-delta and slow the flow so that it would drop any soil it was carrying.
This prevented any major loss of valuable top soil and also filled in a depression in the bottom corner of the lands.
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this garden is very cool
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I hope they will grow hearlthy XD
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You're nuts to take on this project! LOL you see what I did there?
No man, have a blast. I know you said you were busy with other projects but this is a cool one!
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Not as nuts as you with raising veggies.
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Perhaps it's going around then? Well we each have 1 foot in the crazy van, and now we see if it at least takes us somewhere. Good luck
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Oh and BTW, I don't think it's crazy....think it's right, just hard to make work.
We're happy doing this. Don't have money but we have enough for now, and the veggies are increasing. If we can cope with the various crop attacks, then I think we can make a good go at this.
I hope the nuts does you well bud
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Great content @gavvet keep up the good work
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seems strange in South African highveld to have such a strong underground water flow.
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An artificial source
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Looks like some hard work. Good thing you've got the help of some heavy machinery. So cool you are making an orchard! Also thank you as always for supporting my efforts on steemit with my blog. You are A+++ in my book. Keep up the great work! From Kiev Ukraine! -Dan
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@gavvet send me some pecan nuts when you harvest them soon huh?
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In ten years?
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My goodness I thought that you are just watering established trees. @gavvet I will be long dead before I can state your Pecans @o@
Are there any grafted Pecan trees you can plant so that you can enjoy them right away?
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This looks like an enormous project. Did you did those deep trenches with that tiny machine pictured? I'm amazed.
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Mechanical a very rewarding, which makes our work so light.
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Mechanical a
Very rewarding, which makes
Our work so light.
- neiji
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