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Commenced:
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01/08/2014 |
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Submitted:
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30/05/2015 |
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Last updated:
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07/10/2015 |
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Location:
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Coast guard lighthouse point, East Ismailof Island, Halibut Cove, Alaska, US |
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Phone:
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907 299 7591 |
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Climate zone:
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Cold Temperate |
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Project: East Ismailof Island Permaculture homesite
Posted by Corey Schmidt over 9 years ago
Here at EIIPH the garden space is very small but that doesn't mean we don't slow, spread, and soak water! For a while the overflow from the water tanks collecting water from the 12'x20' workshop ran right out onto the ground by the tanks and was causing a trail area to be wet and often slippery, so i hooked up a couple of funnels and some 3/4" polyethylene tubing and sent the runoff to a food forest miniswale in the making. Maybe its not technically a swale, since i dug about an 8 " deep ditch along the edge of a deck, which is not perfectly on contour, but due to the fast percolation of water here and the relatively low rainfall (25"/year), there is never any runoff, whatever goes into the miniswale just soaks in. The miniswale is about 25 feet long and nearly on contour and just down from it is a food forest in the making which will have small trees or pruned trees so as not to shade the future greenhouse above it. Right now there are some caragana and seaberry (Hippophae Rhamnoides) starts, some potato plants, a couple of sunchokes, an established rose bush and several species of annuals from scattered seed growing in the bed adjacent the miniswale. This bed was created by quickly pulling the grass and dropping it in place, and putting a thick layer of kelp on top as well as some tree branches. As any grass comes up, i immediately pull it. Next spring i plan to plant honeyberry (lonicera caerulea) in the bed and possibly apples and other berries. I have noticed this area stays moist all the time, even after nearly a month of sun and no rain. This seems due to the miniswale and thick mulch as well as the fact that it is at the bottom of the property so groundwater from above slowly moves through to the area.
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