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If you live on a hill one of your greatest worries is erosion. The rain falling on your hillside causes mudslides, washing away topsoil, and perhaps most frustrating, the inability to grow anything in that hilly area. Plants cannot grow in this type of landscape because the water travels so quickly it does not have time to become absorbed by the soil hence roots get no water. Over watering to compensate for such quick water loss can cause subsurface erosion. This happens when the soil under the surface becomes saturated with so much water it becomes slippery and causes a mudslide. There is a solution. Read the rest of this entry »

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