Terracing Basics
Terracing is a great way to make flowering
and vegetable gardening possible on steep slopes. Terracing
offers an array of benefits including the conservation of
soil and water, added dimension to your landscaping, ability
to create several mini-gardens, and it prevents erosion
on slopes by creating ridges and channels constructed across-the-slope.
For these reasons, terracing permits more intensive gardening
and cropping than would otherwise be possible.
Almost any materials can be used to create
terracing; treated wood, natural stone, flags-on-edge, railway
sleepers, fence base panels, gabions (wire baskets filled
with local stone), bricks, rocks, concrete blocks, and related
masonry materials. Basically, anything that is capable of
providing some upstanding while still being firmly anchored
to the ground beneath is suitable for the riser. Keep in
mind, many communities have building codes for walls and
terraces.
Terraces can either be a do-it-yourself
project or you can hire an experienced land contractor to
do the job. Regardless of who installs it, a terrace system
must be carefully designed. Terraces must be spaced correctly,
have sufficient ridge height and channel cuts to provide
the necessary water storage, and have properly-sized outlets.
The project is best completed all at one time but it doesn't
have to be. If you start at the top of the slope and work
downhill, construction of a terrace system can be spread
over more than one season.
A certain level of maintenance is required
with a terrace system. The main thing is yearly protective
maintenance, such as removing debris from outlets and smoothing
out silt bars in the channels. Occasionally, the ridges
will need to be rebuilt.
Call Orange County Construction today for your free estimate.
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