Rainwater Garden Project - Desert Permaculture 2015
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A tour of my rainwater garden project where I use permaculture techniques to grow corn and squash in the desert with no supplemental irrigation. It's a project that I've been doing for a few years now and I think it's good example of what can be done with limited water and resources. I hope this might inspire others to see what they can do in there own environments. Please let me know if you have any questions and thanks for watching:) #rainwatergarden #rainwatercollection #permaculture #swale #waterharvesting #diypermaculture #earthworks I own 100% of the visual content in this video. The first song was created for me by my brother in law, Trey Harris. The second song is from the YouTube Audio Library. Credits Below: Second song in video: Sleepy Jake - by Silent Partner
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Brilliant :)
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Slick
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This guy is awesome. I wish I lived in a desert, so I could make it green. :-D
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did you use any water proofing coating or paint on the water tank?
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have you thought about getting some wire cattle panels the 16 foot long ones and making a arch over the tank and growing squash on that for shade or 6x6 concrete re enforcing wire the kind they bury in wet cement ?
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grate system!
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Excellent video of your homesteading projects. I'm looking at Arizona now. Where a outs are you?
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Rainwater gardens + Rainwater swales + Rainwater Level Spreader - lawn care and plantings? Swales near side less of a angle and can be cut, farside challenge to cut. Going to plant a few types of flower / plantings that require winter stratification. Like the red twig dogwoods in the bottom of one of my Rain Gardens that I placed medium River Rock in the bottom -
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very nice! i think more mulch to cover spillways and before damb will help to filter water and slowing vaporisation
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I love your system! I live in country Victoria, Australia, off grid in a semi arid climate. How much rain per annum do you get there? We get about 15 inches in a normal year...
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A nice low maintenance water catchment system. if you dug a second reservoir at the last overflow (4'x4'x4') you could plant a few fruit trees, if you were so inclined.
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cool ideas, thanks for the video
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That is awesome! Thanks for the ideas!
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What Kind of Corn is that? I am looking for a fast grower here in Tempe
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Sweet! Simple and effective! Very nice. :)
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That is pretty smart!
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You need another pond to catch the runoff from the overflow of the system. :-)
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Hang on now... how deep is that pond? And how often does it rain where you are in .az?
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It's a swale with a rain water collection pond. Kewl! Where did you get that liner from??
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Great! One Q - How deep is your pond??
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