permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>]

Attract gophers, dung beetles, ants (not fire), worms to your property.
Nature's subsoilers and rototillers.

I had a problem with excess rainfall washing/leaching soil, OM and nutrients 
away from my garden in the runoff
so I used a tractr and a skid loader to lay our garden beds with tall wide raised beds with deep below grade ditches 
along their sides. These ditches would contain most railfall and overflow would be channeled to flow out into other 
garden area far away; overflow from that system merged with yard and driveway runoff to flow into special ditches 
running around but not into the gardens  and into ditches beside the driveway, through a culvert and into a large pond 
dug large for the purpose of impounding this water. Aquatic weeds grow on the surface of the ponds (I have three of them 
scattered over the farm) and in the shallows for water purification and nutrient recycling  to produce a supply of 
biomass to use in the gardens.