An Acre Of Fairly Wet Ground - Options?

[jwed 16]

Hi all,

Have the use of an acre of land at the back of my house.

It's fairly wet at the bottom of a field but also has dry parts.

Would boggy ground be ok for pigs so long as there are some fairly dry patches? Am also thinking of beehives and chicken runs.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks for reading.

[Guest Navek]

Could you not seen a little time trying to put soak away drain pipes in to try sort but the problem ?

[jwed 16]

It's already been partially drained. Some pipes buried. It gets a lot of water draining down off the field though.

Edited October 3, 2015 by jwed

[stealthy1 3,964]

Pigs will destroy a boggy field.

[trenchfoot 4,243]

Ducks, dig a pond. but pigs will trash it. Our ground is very wet up here and I have to keep pigs on a concrete pad for most of the winter. Of this are mini paddocks that I can rotate to stop them getting fecked.

[jok 3,035]

Rice mate.

[thebiggerdog 160]

It's already been partially drained. Some pipes buried. It gets a lot of water draining down off the field though.

 

dig a ditch to intercept the water before it reaches your land.

[jwed 16]

Rice mate.

Lol

[jwed 16]

poplars are a fast growing hardwood, that do well in wet areas ,part of the willow family. Might also dry the ground out a bit? Failing that i'd look at drainage and ditches. atb Joe

Thanks Joe, never knew that.

[Chicken_man 1,651]

Alder love the wet too and quick growing. Could make charcoal one day. Willow for baskets etc. Poplar, alder and willow will help to dry.

Atb

[oldmantanner 4]

 

It's already been partially drained. Some pipes buried. It gets a lot of water draining down off the field though.

 

dig a ditch to intercept the water before it reaches your land.

 

 

This is probably your best bet. Good idea. See if you can map where the buried pipes are, then maybe look into mole ploughing, this will work if your soil is no less than 40% clay.

 

Pigs are definitely not a good idea in the winter as they will trash it.

 

Unless you are going to do some serious work to improve the soil quality then summer grazing of livestock might be the better options for example, you could put five or six store lambs on it over the summer.