Native riverbed run

[TheSaltyreefer]

Few months back decided I needed to add some drainage around the wife's studio as it was a muddy area (That sat) after rain and turned abit of the lawn into a sludge area not appealing at all, made mowing fun lol
What should have been an easy dig around the studio, put in drainage and be done with it turned into something else completely, I looked at the lay of the land once digging started and thought hmmm I could do a small riverbed kinda thing here, and then as per normal the brain got into bigger and better mode, had an old pond lying around, got the tools out and BHAM took about 4 months all up on and off and we are nearly done, I had a Dragonfruit area up top we have pulled those out and relocated them and stage 2 will commence soon (photos went out of order )

[Dave-1]

@Baretta11 

Sorry Not sure what you mean about the plastic? I dont think I have mentioned it in this project?

Dave

[MitchellMc]

Hi @Dave-1,

I believe @Baretta11 might have been referring to your first comment and question on page one of the discussion regarding the watercourse/pond you are intending to build and how to suppress weeds.

Mitchell

[Baretta11]

@Dave-1 

Sorry Dave, it was a question in your initial comment and not that you intended to use plastic but you asked if plastic might have been used by @TheSaltyreefer in his project and I thought I'd jump on board and suggest alternatives to anyone thinking of using plastic. Sorry for the confusion.

[Dave-1]

@Baretta11 

Bingo! Makes sense now. Finally managed to find where I referenced the plastic  (The page dosnt show all the conversation when people reply). Weeds always manage to come up when I place mulch of any kind down, so I was just asking what Thesaltyreefer did in case there was something I could do differently.

Dave

[Baretta11]

@Dave-1 

Yes sometimes others have done something that one might not have automaticaly thought of doing, especially in the case of @TheSaltyreefer  project with all the drainage issues.

Qiute honestly I don't think too many people use plastic nowadays as I think they all know it doesn't work too well.

As I mentioned in my earlier post I have water retension issues too, mainly in my lawn to the point that I joke about having an aquatic orchard and other areas get up to 10cm of water lying on the grass, so what I did in three places now was to put in aggi pipe and get some ofthe water away to a lower lying area of the property and it sort of works but sometimes there is just too much rain and theres nothing I can do to change that short of doing what @TheSaltyreefer did but it wouldn't work in my instance for the way I have everything laid out but it's great someone could do something to make it better.

[Herrenovacation]

@TheSaltyreefer this looks great! Thanks for sharing i will follow for phase 2 as I wish to create something similar in the future. 

[TheSaltyreefer]

Will pop some images up soon of some progress made 

[TheSaltyreefer]

Well its been awhile

Thought I would pop up a video around 3 months ago of where I am at, it looks plenty different now after all the rain, plants are growing amazingly well, will post again soon

I am about to start on another section shortly, never ending journey haha

Have a nice Xmas people

[Jason]

Looks terrific @TheSaltyreefer, many thanks for the update.

Great to see you back on the site. What's your next project?

Hope you and the family have a fantastic festive season.

Jason

[Dave-1]

Afternoon @TheSaltyreefer 

Looks great Love how your older plants are filling out

Dave