Things with “French” in the title are usually fancy, right? Poodles, perfume, pastries. But a French drain is nothing more than a ditch in sloped ground, inset with a perforated drain pipe under a ...
High land values, wet weather and low crop prices have prompted a surge in drainage operations on UK arable farms, resulting in yield increases of up to 35%. A survey of 400 growers, conducted at ...
When water starts pooling in places around your home or garden, installing a French drain is one solution that could help. The good news is it's also a task that most homeowners are capable of doing, ...
Knowledge of local drainage schemes, and their effectiveness, will provide insight. Test pits of at least 2.5 metres deep should be excavated. Soil type should be established and the rate and depth of ...
The carbon footprint of Estonia's drained landscapes is comparable to that of our whole transport industry. Nevertheless, Estonian forestry and agriculture today are mainly dependent on drainage ...
Mastenbroek has built its first UK-bound trenchless drainage plough in more than thirty years for Warwickshire-based Farm Services, which is keen to satisfy a resurgent number of farmers requesting ...