togei
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Water drainage
I would like to start a topic on ways local, read country, Japanese take care of problems related to land and environment. I have a lot of respect for what I call local or deep knowledge regarding the maintenance of land. I know there is a lot of criticism about how the Japanese take care of the land. My personal experience in the realm of my land is that a lot of the time the local knowledge has proven more ecological and long sighted.
I will start with a project my neighbor is doing that I will do on my "garden". It is a drainage project they are doing in the borders of rice fields. The pictures show them laying bamboo and then on top of that the usual plastic pipe that is used for underground drainage. The reason for the bamboo is it keeps the plastic pipe from clogging up. I asked if using bamboo that was dead was OK and they said it is better to use green or freshly cut bamboo. The trenches are about 50 cm. deep and the same wide. The plastic pipe is attached to the bamboo with some kind of string.
I don't think this is necessarily the best example of ecologically sound local knowledge but it is a kind of local know how that I find interesting.
It looks like I will have to load the images onto my blog and link there. If there is a way to load the images directly into the post can someone please let me know.
You can see the images at http://togeii.wordpress.com/
Thank you.
Last edited by togei, 1/4/2008, 9:01 am
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Johnny LaRue
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Re: Water drainage
Hi Togei,
Nice pic on the drainage. A good and cheap alternative to gravel I guess.
This time of year I see neighbors covering their daikon with piles of dry, dead leaves to protect from frost I assume. Maybe old news to those of you with green thumbs.
You can directly paste pics into your posts if you first upload them to a photo hosting website like Photobucket. Then copy the image link, or direct link to the pic and paste into the post.
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