permaculture

["Daimen Hardie" <daimen_hardie@hotmail.com>]

I'm planting fruit and nut trees in an old field turned alder patch, and 
thought to raise beds of soil to plant in as the area is often very wet. The 
land shows sign of old ditching and drainage, most running directly down 
slope.  Swales on contour are going in, to intercept the runnels and improve 
infiltration, but I'm concerend that waterlogging will continue at times and 
stress the trees.  I have read of 'turtleback mounds', raised beds for 
trees, but I'm uncertain as to how high and wide to build them.

Daimen

> From: "Kevin Topek" <ktopek@houston.rr.com>
> Reply-To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] turtleback mounds
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:04:30 -0600
>
> Daimen,
>
> Please rephrase this question. What are you trying to accomplish?
>
> Kevin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daimen Hardie" <daimen_hardie@hotmail.com>
> To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 8:00 AM
> Subject: [permaculture] turtleback mounds
>
>
> > Has anyone advice on planting fruit and nut trees on raised beds over
> poorly
> > drained soils?  How close should the mound size come to the tree's 
> mature
> > root-spread?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Daimen
> >
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