How to Create a Drainage Swale - This Old House
Swales follow the contours around the base of a natural or created slope, redirecting storm water and filtering runoff as it sinks into the soil, instead of keeping it in one place, like a rain garden.
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2024年3月19日 · A permaculture swale is a technique for capturing and storing water in a garden. Learn how to build a swale in the home landscape.
How to Build a Rock Drainage Swale - HandyManHowTo
2023年8月14日 · This projects explains how to build a rock drainage swale to prevent rain water soil erosion. The swale was necessary because storm water was cutting gullies across the backyard.
How to Dig Swales: 9 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow
2024年3月5日 · Swales are an excellent technique in rainwater harvesting. They capture surface runoff and send it deep into the aquifer, both nourishing trees and reducing erosion. The berms beneath them make great fertile planting beds. And best of all, swales can be dug by hand and cost you nothing.
How to Build a Swale to Improve Yard Drainage - Hunker
2021年11月7日 · A swale is a landscape feature designed to slow and redirect rainwater runoff using a shallow ditch and berm barrier. Learn how and why you should build a swale.
How to Build a Swale on Contour Successfully
2015年7月24日 · For the sake of swale newbies, the basic concept of a swale on contour is to catch water as it drains and hold it in place until it absorbs into the ground. It looks a bit like a massive ditch with closed ends, trapping all of the water as opposed to having it flow anywhere.
Swales: How To Build Them From a to Z - New Life On A …
2023年5月22日 · Swales – while effective on their own – make for an incredibly efficient system when placed down your watershed in a herringbone pattern connected by diversion swales, so consider reducing the size and implementing more than …
How to Build a Swale for Drainage - Grit
2023年6月16日 · Strategically placed swales are one of the easiest ways to enhance your drought resilience and vegetate the more arid zones in your landscape. Swales are shallow trenches or waterways created to channel and trap or slow the movement of surface water.
How to Build a Bio-Swale (and Why You Should Want To!)
2015年11月17日 · To get right to the point, a bio-swale is basically a fancy type of ditch that used for controlling erosion and conserving moisture in the soil. It also creates a rich, moist planting area for perennial crops, like fruit trees, and berries.
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How to build a swale is one of the most important things I have learnt while developing my food forest and studying PERMACULTURE with Geoff Lawton. A swale i...
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