Soil washing away
- Thread starter Wheatonrotty
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Hindsight
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- Lincolnshire
Been done more recently than that. A few years ago one of the Holbeach Marsh farmers dug pits into the light silt which is found at depth under the heavier silts and spread it 4 inches deep across a few fields.
Ha ha very funny. Ploughed land here has a decent crop growing on it, whereas I’ve seen some disastrous no till recently, that has no crop due to poor establishment and slugs.
I think the plough is getting an unfair slating. Plenty of fields about with a feed rack in the middle of a swamp ( especially in this year of straw " saving " ), stubble turnip fields resembling the Somme, and the worst in this part of the world is winter veg and a free range chicken outfit with feed wagons and pullets in, and manure out of fields 24/7.
Ruston3w
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- Location
- south suffolk
Sorry yes, but that is my point, ancient/established management is ok, smaller localised ideas don't register .
Richard.
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Without wishing to poke the DD bear too hard, is the erosion considered to be better or worse now than it was 30 or 40 years ago?
- Location
- Left in the middle of nowhere
There's a few French potato growers using phacelia, radish & clovers (I think) placing seed in the wheeling with a gravity seeder, like a rotor meter.
Benoit Leforestier has used peas as a companion, the roots improve the soil structure & therefore drainage between the rows but the plants are fully matured at harvest causing few problems with machinery.
Préserver la structure tout en cultivant des pommes de terre et des betteraves
[Témoignages d'agriculteurs] Privilégier la qualité du sol quand on produit de la betterave ou de la pomme de terre ressemble à une équation...
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
From where?
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Why is it called warping?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Warp is another word for silt.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
I had visions of big machines trying to bend a field
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It was excavated from the deep silt at a nearby farm, carted on the railway used for removing cut peat, and tipped over the moss.
The area was considered worthless to rent for agriculture.
glasshouse
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- lothians
Imagine chris packham getting a hold of that
How big an area did they cover?
glasshouse
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- lothians
Thats what should happen when houses are built on farmland
Building developers (and the planners ) should be forced to take their removed topsoil from their sites to the top of the nearest, highest ground and spread nicrly and bear all cost of doing so, not carted away to be unceremoniously dumped .
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Unsure. The "hole" they dug the silt out is Lindholme Fisheries, and the old estate would be 3000ac and the warp is around 8 to 12 inches deep over peat. Not a stone in it.
Tesla what about vermuyden , he did a lot of warping on the Humber / Ouse , built banks round field and let the tide in then let it drain slowly off leaving a layer of silt.
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Depends what will grow with the pre Em herbs they use Will ask the questionThere's a few French potato growers using phacelia, radish & clovers (I think) placing seed in the wheeling with a gravity seeder, like a rotor meter.
Benoit Leforestier has used peas as a companion, the roots improve the soil structure & therefore drainage between the rows but the plants are fully matured at harvest causing few problems with machinery.
Préserver la structure tout en cultivant des pommes de terre et des betteraves
[Témoignages d'agriculteurs] Privilégier la qualité du sol quand on produit de la betterave ou de la pomme de terre ressemble à une équation...www.terre-net.fr
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- Lincolnshire
Yup.
Lots of land round here was warped - Gainsborough being about the furthest extent of it. If you know what you're looking for you can find or figure where the warping drains are. They reckoned on the humberhead levels you could warp 9" of silt in a year.
But the warping like this was obviously limited by how far turgid water will travel. Hence the warping near lindolm was "dry" warped.
The last warping round there was at medge hall near crowle after ww1.
Much of the vermuden drains were not great. My 5x great grandfather was the first to plough some fresh drained land at what is now Potteric Carr nature reserve. Was so boggy he built shoes for the horses to make the surface area much larger.
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- Lincolnshire
For some reason, Mrs teslacoils doesn't find going on walks with me very exciting as I get overly interested in pumping stations and the like.
We had to backtrack quarter of a mile as I heard the siren announcing the local sluice was opening as we went by on boxing Day.
We had to backtrack quarter of a mile as I heard the siren announcing the local sluice was opening as we went by on boxing Day.