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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: Re: [SANET-MG] water catchments
  • Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:23:20 -0500



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Subject: Re: [SANET-MG] water catchments
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:00:41 -0500
From: Michael Astera <michael.astera@GMAIL.COM>
To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU

You can do the same thing with Bentonite clay and it will last forever.
Well drillers use bentonite to seal the top of wells. It's also commonly
available as kitty litter, the granular stuff that clumps together and
expands when it gets wet.

Dig your catchment basin, spread 1/2 to 1 inch of Bentonite, then till it in
to the top couple inches of soil. It will hold water just fine and is
completely natural and non-toxic.

Michael Astera
http://soilminerals.com

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Garth & Kim Travis
<gartht@windstream.net>wrote:

Greetings,

We are looking into using swimming pool liners to create water catchments
for our gardens. In the last couple of years, we have had severe droughts
and our rain fall is almost half of what it is. This means that I am doing
far more irrigating than I had ever planned on.

One of my customers has raised concerns about hormones leaching from the
vinyl into my produce.

--
Bright Blessings,
Garth & Kim Travis
www.TheRoseColoredForest.com
Bedias, Texas
936-395-0110

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