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Old 14-04-2018, 07:25 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Pavel314 wrote:
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I dug two rice paddies into the hill on the side of the pond. The walls are lined with plastic cloth to slow any leakage and the whole thing is surrounded by a woven-wire fence. If anything creeps out beyond the fence, the sheep will eat it before it gets very far.


oh, yeah, sheep will keep it down.


We have a small creek on the north end of the property; I'm thinking of planting a few seeds in the slow eddies just to see what happens.


if the grasses already along there are holding the
banks in place you may not want a taller grass shading
them out. we've had the large drainage ditch out back
shifting because we made the mistake of shading out
some grasses and it is not a good thing to be having
to deal with... i'm going to need hip waders and a
nice dry summer to put large chunks of dirt and grasses
back along the closer bank. too bad it didn't shift
the other direction. i wouldn't have minded that as
much. but of course, with the grass gone along that
bank the water flows easier/faster and takes it out
even more. lesson learned.


songbird