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So we’re in some pretty steep country here. This plant is called vetiver. I’d love to introduce you to vetiver. Hello, Miss Vetiver. Say hello to everybody. You’re gonna be on camera. It’s a really neat grass. It’s a bunch grass. It doesn’t, as you can see, it kind of stays in the same spot, and its characteristic is that its roots go straight down, and it builds like a wall. Now, these people planted these, I’d say maybe on two and three, sometimes four foot centers, which is too wide. Most of the recommendations that I’ve seen for when you’re really wanting to build an erosion proof wall would be to put them on like eight or twelve inch centers at the best, and you can see, here’s an area where they’re really filling in pretty well, but as you can see, even here, they are still maybe a little bit too far.
These were planted closer together, so they’re nice. So this grass, when it’s younger like this and fairly tender, you can feed that to cattle. I haven’t tried it with rabbits, but the other thing in which you can see people do here, we call it chop and drop, is you just cut it down and let it lay on the ground and decompose and build soil. So it’s an amazing plant. I’m going to walk with you and show you another really amazing plant that’s holding up a hillside too. It’s an amazing plant, and the cool thing about it is I’m here in Puerto Rico, and it’s holding a lot of hillsides together in Puerto Rico, but it grows everywhere.
Like they use it in Colorado to hold mountainsides together there, and it grows. It doesn’t need a lot of soil, like it’s grown in Colorado in those rocky crevices and stuff like that, so pretty amazing plant, just incredible. Here, while we’re talking countryside here, and we’re almost up. This is a little creek or runoff. If we were in Texas, they would call this a river, almost anywhere else. They just call it a, you know, like a creek. But yeah, because we’ve got these steep hills, so you can have to have water flow happening, and we’re almost here at the thing I want to show you for other ways that you can hold together a hillside.
While I’m walking there, what do you think? You know, there’s aliens, huh? 100 percent. It’s a psyop, right? Totally with you on that. But I really wish it was the aliens. Like we could use a major disruption right now. Why not? That better be pretty easy to get. I think they use it in landscaping a lot. So I want to, I want to show you this, mama. Let’s see if I can, there we go. Look at this beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I don’t know what kind of tree. Is that a mango tree? Look at how that thing is literally holding this hillside together.
I’m going to… Here it is in the background. You can see this thing is massive, and it’s, it’s, it’s literally holding this hillside together. There’s a lot of, the mango trees do that. Let’s see if I can get some more going on this side. You can see them, just all these plants. If they cut down these big trees, there’s more of them. These hillside would completely collapse. All this, all this soil and all this stuff would go into the ditch and mess up the roads and everything like that. So when you see a big old tree like that, pea by it.
They love, they love nitrogen. Okay. Yeah, so you can hold a hillside together with plants. It’s way better, you know, a lot of times than concrete and rebar. The vetiver, I don’t know. I know with concrete, if you like, like they say for most landscapers, like if you want to do more than a four foot high bank, then you have to go to concrete. I’ve seen that vetiver hold, well you just saw that vetiver was holding up some really, really steep hills there. I don’t know what the maximum incline is or not, but I’ve seen people putting it on, on slopes.
I’m not sure how they planted it. They were so freaking vertical. Anyway, there’s an idea for you and some beautiful footage to see an absolutely stunningly beautiful road and these trees and plants that are holding this countryside together. All right, let me talk to you later. [tr:trw].
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