Brenda Groth is the person on these threads who has a lot of
experience with wet lands.
You could have fish ponds.
I would have thought deepening the ditch round the paddy feild might help, i deepened the ditch round my house and got rid of the damp that way. The ditch would have to have somewhere to go that was lower than your land for the awwater to run too. I suppose one can just take water off to the municipal drains in some places.
Poplars are also river trees. Their leaves have a special twist in the stalk of the leaf mechanism or some of the poplars do, that keeps the leaves twisting one way and then the other and helps them draw up even more water as they are blown in the breeze.
What about swamp cypresses?
Willows and poplars have very long roots can damage your drains from further away than the roots of other trees can. You
should leave at least twenty yards i think it is between them and your house.
Holey pipes buried in the ground fill with water and take it off elsewhere. At my grandmothers farm where there were pipes under the feilds there were also ditches around the feilds, the pipes must have drained into the ditches and the ditches heaven only knows where. The feilds were also undulated lower bits over the pipes i think and rises between pipes.
Maybe lots of roots on the land could get the water draining into the subsoil better. I have no idea if that is possibly true or not, if the soil was clay they would make it drain better if there were any porous rocks underneath that could take water. agri rose macaskie.
Jon Pòlk is talking here about something I would like to know more about trees storing water and how they store water and retrieve it from the
wood in their trunks. I dont know anything about movement from the centre to the outside of trees though i know a bit about the up down movement of liquids in trees. I did once wonder how much trees could store to help them through droughts.
Which trees store water for the dry season in india, that information couldd be useful for someone.
It very interesting about the lands covered in pine forests that were considered dry butthat turned out to be wet lands when stripped of the pines and pines aren't even a river tree. rose macaskie.