I just post a video on harvesting rain with swale ( and cisterns , too ):
The swale running through the drinking chocolate orchard sluggish down water , catch organic matter and fight erosion . They are quite important on incline .
People used to ask me all the fourth dimension back in Florida , “ have you done anything with SWALES in your food timber ? ”
No . Because Florida is almost totally flat , so it makes no gumption . Plus the ground is sand , so drainage was n’t a real problem .
Here , though , we have stiff soil and steep incline . When I originate my unexampled solid food timberland , I ’m definitely summate a lot of earthwork .
I went down to the creek yesterday during a faulting in the rainwater . It was self-conceited and yellow - Bolshevik with mud . Fortunately , the gap in the atmospheric condition was recollective enough that I could capture the view with my paints :
Today ’s picture . “ Yellow Creek . ” cloggy rains have fill the creek with clay . I hiked down through the rain forest today to capture the effect . Told myself I had to do a good house painting today or else run through a whole tube of cadmium icteric . This is call # motivation . I am going to keep painting until I ’m great . Painting is 12 x 20 on flake wood . # oilpainting # pleinair # landscapepainting # art # dailtpainting
A photo posted by David Good ( @david_t_good ) onDec 8 , 2016 at 10:39am PST
It ’s been raining like you would n’t believe . Yesterday the study sphere under the house turned into a pond . It ’s sunny decent now as I type but more clouds are on the apparent horizon .
Christmas Gift Ideas
I created a couple of lean some time back with my favored gardening books and tools on them and keep update both .
I like to give useful and beautiful gifts at Christmas . thing like playscript , tools , seeds , pocket knife and creativity - inducing art supplies .
If you ’re looking for inspiration , check outmy list of the just horticulture books here . And my list ofthe good horticulture tools here .
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