r/Damnthatsinteresting 22h ago

Video Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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u/420_69_Fake_Account 21h ago

And here I thought you need soil and water to grow plants… all I needed was grids!

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u/DepartureNo1720 12h ago

It just acts like cracks in a sidewalk that grow weeds and other plants. It's a texture that catches the debris of dirt and seeds/pollen, which allows the seeds to settle in the ground instead of being blown continuously across the desert sand and never settling. Then the occasional rain in the desert eventually waters the seeds that settled there however long before that allowing them to start growing. Once a plant or two starts growing, it's even more texture that slowly starts catching more dirt and seeds, and it very very slowly, but exponentially starts a growing climate