Building swale to support a new olive tree grove. It's important to plan for success when planting in a new area. In today's video I discuss the thinking behind and also show the building of swales along the side of a gully where I am planting young olive trees. The olive trees need the hottest spot on the property which is also potentially the driest. By building these swales means that these plants will get as much moisture as possible with little effort - it's all in the design.
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:31 Observe the site
2:10 How to use A frame
3:33 Planning first swale
4:34 Digging first swale
5:24 Spring in flow and along swale
7:05 Continuing swale build
8:16 Planning for more mini swales
8:50 Work on upper mini swales
13:14 lower mini swales
14:00 Diagrammatic of swale installation
14:25 Planting olive trees
15:55 Planting support trees
18:00 Outro
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