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digger in today putting some water pipe underground, in case of a big freeze, 12/15 ins down, the soil is dry, best of all, 8/10 ins of dark brown, the next bit, we are trying to sort a wet patch, and water pipe, years ago we tried to sort this wet patch out, couldn't find a drain there, and left it, wasn't a big problem, this year, the ground is rather wet, and causing an issue with cattle out on kale, usually pretty dry up there, I know why we didn't find a drain, it's a 4ft down stone drain, we didn't go deep enough ! And if we keep going down slope, before it starts to rise, we should find a decent stone gout, to take the water away. The ground has started to dry out before, the amount of water running now, should improve things a lot. Even on that wetter ground, before the 'problem' ground is dry a foot down, and a nice bit of dark brown top. But by draining ground, you are 'altering' the natural topography, so what should we refer to as 'nature'?
just caught the end of a radio programme, saying they expect major farm machinery to run on farm produced methane !
just caught the end of a radio programme, saying they expect major farm machinery to run on farm produced methane !