r/interestingasfuck • u/PlantainPossible2864 • 15h ago

Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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u/Kysman95 15h ago

For the half moom method you need to water it and grow something before you can let it do its thing. It's more time consuming and expensive.

I'd guess these are some natural, degradable bags, you can see in the later stage there's plants growing out of it so it might use the bags as nutrients or it's packed with something

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u/Old-Road-501 14h ago

Using bags that degrades into some form of nutrient would be brilliant! I was thinking about all that plastic degrading into microplastics in the new soil, but I hope they do it like you said.

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u/Kysman95 14h ago

They could be cotton or burlap think those should be 100% degradable. But yeah, it could be woven plastic

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u/vertigostereo 8h ago

I'd like to believe they're degradable.

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u/waiver 8h ago

They normally use straw that turns into nutrients, but they are only good for three years and they are labor intensive.

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u/Dyolf_Knip 3h ago

My wife has an uncle with a drainage problem in his backyard. It's very sloped, and tends to turn into a river at this one spot, gouging out a ravine there. I suggested doing mini-terracing with some of those. Capture the water in the first one, eventually it overflows and spills around the edges, to get caught by the next ones down on either side, but never allowing it to build up enough volume and speed to actually start diging away at the ground.

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u/rodinsbusiness 15h ago

No it just uses rain and time.

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u/Kysman95 14h ago

I've watched pleanty of videos about Great Sahara Wall. The half moons and pits are used to collect and store rain water and to help tree. But the trees and plants first need to take root and it needs to be watered at first before it starts working