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dougal
Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 7184 Location: South Kent
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 08 11:45 am Post subject: |
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Rob R wrote: |
You don't want to encourage water downhill anyway, terribly destructive to soil & fertility. |
Clearly, I'm a townie not a farmer, because I rather thought that standing water + stock had already resulted in, er, um, a soil of low fertility and appalling structure, that Nick was hoping to improve somehow...
Nick wrote: |
.... experience suggests I get a green slime growing first, then nothing except thistles, which the pigs don't like. ... |
And my simplistic view was that doing something, anything, about the drainage (or at least the standing water), looked like the very first stage!
Sure, a more elaborate solution, distributing the runoff right across the slope would be even better, but to *restore* fertility and soil structure to the top field, removing the standing water, somehow, has to be an early part of whatever solution, doesn't it? |
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Nick
Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 34535 Location: Hereford
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Rob R
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 31902 Location: York
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mochyn
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Green Man
Joined: 23 Jul 2006 Posts: 5272 Location: Rural Scotland.
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Nick
Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 34535 Location: Hereford
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Green Man
Joined: 23 Jul 2006 Posts: 5272 Location: Rural Scotland.
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Nick
Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 34535 Location: Hereford
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