Looking for plants that are low growing to help prevent soil erosion on a long strip that's sloped downwards. Right now it's bare with woodchips. It's about a 2-3' drop over a 3-4' depth. The strip is 30' long. This is along the south side so ideally something low growing so it doesn't block the sunlight.
At first I though this would be the perfect place for strawberries, but am wondering if I should put those in a contained space instead. The sloped strip borders the area I am planning to use for annual veggies so I don't want to be constantly struggling to keep the strawberries from invading. Any rec's for low growing plants, good for preventing soil erosion but are easier to manage long term? Zone 4b in MN.
Looking for advice how to best deal with water run-off from our neighbouring properties which is causing soil erosion, both properties drain into this area as you can see it is experiencing quite a bit of soil erosion (i added a bunch of rocks into the hole and it just eroded in front of the rocks). I am happy to get this water from the neighbours as it fills up our dam at the back of the property and then spils out into the creek that is on crown land/bush, i just need to manage it better to stop the erosion.
I am located in the northern part of Australia where we have two seasons, wet and dry. Soil drains reasonably well but it does get quite boggy after a few days of constant heavy rain. We experience significant amounts of rain for half of the year (Total rainfall annually is over 1500mm)
Ideally id like to do most/all of the work myself i have a tractor with a bucket and can hire other machinery as required.
In this photo on the left you can see the culvert that i've moved out of the gap:
https://i.imgur.com/7fWIzWv.jpeg (culvert on top of the raised path on the left)
https://i.imgur.com/iKyNaj1.jpeg (gap where it used to be to allow travel out the back during the wet season)
My plan is to complete the 'bridge' which has washed out and somehow stop all the soil erosion so i can drive the 4wd out the back of my property during the wet season and not get bogged.
Rest of the photos i took: https://imgur.com/a/oJLXkV3/
The Ecuadorean government has declared a force majeure over all of its oil exports and production contracts. The clause is invoked to remove liability from failing to uphold contracts in the event of disasters. The threat of soil erosion forced the shutdown of the country’s two pipelines that transport crude across the Andes. Petroecuador. The country’s Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System and Heavy Crude Pipeline, as well as the Shushufindi-Quito petroleum products pipeline, had to be shut. Ecuador’s third force majeure on oil contracts since the two Andean pipelines snapped last year deals a blow to President Guillermo Lasso, who aims to overcome years of stagnant production in the former OPEC member and more than double output to near 1 million barrels a day. River erosion near pipeline infrastructure has accelerated since the nearby Coca-Codo Sinclair hydro-electric power plant was inaugurated in late 2016. A landslide in April 2020 severed both crude pipelines, triggering oil spills and a temporary output cut of almost 60%. International agencies, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, are working to help find a solution to slow the damage from the aggressive erosion. Petroecuador has begun to shut down production in several fields because the oil can’t be transported and it has limited storage space. The company owns the Trans-Ecuadorian pipeline, known as SOTE, while the other line, known as OCP, is owned by a consortium of oil companies. Emergency bypasses are under construction to allow oil pumping to resume. Petroecuador currently has sufficient fuel stocks to supply the domestic market, according to the statement. The country’s crude output as of Dec. 9 was 482,000 barrels a day, according to the oil and mining regulator. Ecuador exported about 345,000 barrels a day of crude in October, while importing roughly 112,000 a day, based on the latest available data from the central bank. The country imported around 110,000 barrels a day of gasoline and diesel in November, 66% of which came from the United States!
I live somewhere that we have a pretty short growing season, so my beds are pretty high production-focused during the growing season, meaning I don't really have time to grow a cover crop that would survive the winter (it would need to be winter wheat, rye, or the hybrid one).
I know some no-till growers cover their market garden beds with a plastic or woven covering to put them to rest.
I'd like to avoid plastic if possible for many environmental and ecological reasons, and to avoid microplastics entering my soil, and I feel like plastic tarps don't let the beds/soil breathe. Anyone have any good strategies for covering the bed, but not using plastic and perhaps something that's fairly accessible (e.g. not some sort of specialized woven material you have to get from a commercial organic supplier).
To review, the goals are:
-something to cover the bed
-not plastic or otherwise concerning
-something that would reduce nutrient leaching and erosion (I don't think leaves, woodchips, etc would fill this role adequately)
-can't be a cover crop; don't have the time
Hi all,
So I live on a bit of a hill and my backyard neighbors are up the hill from me. They built their fence at the top of a rockery that separates our properties. I have a concrete patio that nearly abuts the rockery- like less than a foot. There’s some invasive ivy and blackberries that grow out of the rockery that we try to keep on top of. Every year I’m getting about 6 inches of soil runoff on the back of the patio. I was thinking about just doing a raised garden bed back there so the dirt would go there instead of the patio, but I was wondering if anybody else had any ideas. Ideally the erosion control would be happening on their side of the fence, but I don’t really want to tell them what to do. Any advice is appreciated.
By the side of the house there is soil erosion by foundation. Slab concrete. What would I fill the void with? Sand? Garden soil? Something else?
Hey ya’ll, looking to get some other eyes on the problem with my girlfriend’s house before I pull the trigger on a repair. The house is built on a slope and its relatively steep right after the house ends. I’m noticing lots of erosion under the concrete footing and some cracks in the cinder blocks. I had a foundation repair company give it a look and they gave me a quote of ~$12,500 for 7 piers to go along the back and 1 pier around the corner on each side. They didnt make any statement about filling in the erosion before/after. Just the piers. Comes with a lifetime warranty, transferable to any new owners. Does this sound like the correct path forward? Also, any ideas on what yo do under the deck to prevent further runoff? Thanks!
https://imgur.com/a/F7NZUTB/
Hi all, my wife and I bought our first home last year and we love it. Unfortunately however, the backyard is essentially one giant, sloping hill with lots of trees but little to no grass or bushes. As a result, everytime it rains we see significant soil buildup at the lowest point. We have a rock path in our backyard leading to a shed and it is slowly being overtaken by the soil erosion. This in particular is what I would like to fix if possible.
I am pretty clueless about basically everything home maintenance/improvement so I have no idea where to even start with trying to fix this issue. Would anyone here be able to offer some advice?
We've made a video summarising how faming can either harm or enhance soils and the solutions we can all take to mitigate erosion. We hope we did it justice, it was based on scientific papers. Please feel free to check it out :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm4D5PuWgjs
Basically the caption - I was on a walk today and wondered why don’t they sink? Their weight is massive and surely, despite their large area the ground pressure is high enough to cause a noticeable amount of depression, but I’ve never heard anything about it. Why doesn’t this happen?
Hi lawn guys,
Whats the best grass to prevent soil erosion?
Thank you.
