I had busted my tail trying to keep my trees away from the gophers without poisoning them. My ex significant other – who donated the liquid plumber to my constructed wetland – was extremely annoyed that I was spending the time and effort.
And I always questioned myself whether it had been worth it. But this morning I went down and and in looking around realized that even with the heavy rain practically all the water rushing down my asphalt driveway had gone into the trenches and not onto the street
The more I looked at the trenches the more I realized how much water had gone into them. There’s 200 feet of trench that’s a foot wide and maybe a foot and a half deep and there was water flooded all the way to the end of them. Some of the weeds in the bottom of the trench, even all the way at the end, were squashed flat by the rushing water. And all that water is now soaked into the ground in and around my orchard.
Bob
