The rains have come and the swale...

After a couple of days of rainy wether; at last water in the swale :) After the first big rains there was hardly anything. This is because it had been dry for a month or so, and the land was absorbing almost everything. Then, after a couple of bigger rain storms spread over a couple of days and many hours of lighter rain, The swale got on average some 20 cm of water. As I didn't quite finish the leveling, I could easily sea where more work needed to be done. When finished, I gues the capacity will be at least twice wat we had now, so we will be able to handle most rainstorms.

We are planning on making a big pond in the middle of the swale, so we will need a lot of water harvesting capacity. If it prooves hard to fill the pond, we could ask the neighbour if we can extend the swale onto his terrain, so we can seriously increase our water shed.

If you have ideas for our swale, or you want to share your experience with a swale you have made or seen, we would love to read about it in a comment.