Coastal Beach and Erosion Management
Coastal beach dunes are disappearing and with them the coastline. Temporary irrigation with fertigation can vegetate fragile dunes with thick tall native plants and grasses that can catch the wind blown sand and build the dune vertically very fast. These tall healthy dunes will grow seaward and restore the coastline naturally unregulated. The concept is to catch the unregulated wind blown sand in the dunes.
Geo-tubes used to strengthen dunes can work better if they are inter-locked with strong root systems and become a strong bio-barrier. *See examples of roots growing into and through geo-tube fabric using fertigation and organics.
Erosion is reducing valuable soil, land, and coastlines, and plants are our best defense. Plants have held our soils in place for millions of years and their roots systems are the key to Erosion Management solutions.
Fertigation and temporary irrigation can revegitate and produce plants very fast that have deep dense root systems that can hold soil, sand, gravel, and even rocks together in a strong matrix that can withstand and reverse erosion. Fertigation using special organic nutrients can support and push plant growth to the highest levels with deep strong dense root systems that can become a tightly knit structure in the soil or sand.
Fast revegetation is critical in new construction of highway hillsides and valleys, and fertigation can be included in any type of irrigation, from fixed irrigation, to wheeled hose cannons.
Fertigation brings new technology into erosion control and management. Contact us to learn more about what can be done.
Disaster Recovery
“I was very worried last year, as this land did not fetch us a single grain.”
--Mrs. M. Jaya, Vedaranyam, India
In December, 2004, a tsunami struck the east coast of India, causing massive tracts of farmland to become unusable overnight. The muddy seawater deposited a mass of salt-infused seabed clay, leaving only barren soil in its wake. Farmers were unable to grow a blade of grass, let alone profitable crops.
Turf Feeding Systems founder Michael Chaplinsky organized a group of scientists, agronomists and engineers to form The Greenline Group to address the problem. They launched a pilot program in a remote part of India in September 2006, using advanced fertigation techniques (including sodium-blocker technology) to address the problem of sea salt deposits from the tidal wave. When Mrs. Jaya and her husband planted a new rice crop in their 5-acre plot, they didn’t know what to expect.
“I was wondering if we would ever see the kind of harvest we used to see before the tsunami struck us,” she told the Greenline scientists and their Indian government partners. The crop took hold and prospered in the “fertigated” soil. By mid-season, Greenline staff was pleased (but not terribly surprised) to learn that Jaya predicted a harvest yield of 90-100% of pre-tsunami levels.
Turf Feeding Systems and its partner The Greenline Group are committed to extending this turf-land disaster recovery technology to impacted areas around the globe.
TFS Erosion and Recovery Products
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