Spent a couple of hours digging out beginning of a swale... then it hit me, maybe I am approaching this wrong. It seems to get too deep a distance between the bottom of the swale and tops of the rows if I dig out and use the dirt to backfill the rows. It is almost 1.2 meters...
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| Started digging |
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| A bit over a meter of swale done (well kind of) |
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| Too deep, right? |
So, I suppose I just dig a little bit to shape the swale, like 20 cm or so, and then backfill the rows like 30 cm. And if the dirt from swale digging is not enough, I will just get it from somewhere else. That way the top and bottoms will be half a meter apart.
I am not sure. I will try it out and see what it looks like...
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