Hi everyone I recently watched an episode of Dirty Jobs, where they load a smaller truck with material they then spray on huge areas of soil. This technique inspired me, to come up with my own system to green huge areas in a minimal period of time. The system works as followed: 1. Spray the dry soil with a material, that is very dry and which sucks up the slightest bit of humility, while cooling the desert soil underneath it. Cooling huge areas of desert soil is one part, now comes the tricky part, this material needs to let some sunlight through so that photosynthesis can happen. 2. If the soil is now cooled and way more humid, drive the same area with a second truck, that this time not sprays, but shoots seeds through the covering layer into the humid soil. This way no-one would have to work on every square meter of ground, but drive up huge areas of soil, first spraying them, then shooting resilient seeds into it. But what material could be used, to cover and cool the soil as explained above?
Sounds expensive. Wouldn't it be easier to keyline huge tracks right before the rainy season and let nature do the work? Thanks to the members on this site, I have become a huge fan of keyline plowing for large open areas.
With this technique we would be able to spray/green one hectare per day with two trucks/ three men/woman instead of doing something only before the rainy season. Image this if you had 10 trucks 30 men working each day. Which is not many trucks not many men/woman but would give us 3,650 hectares each year. Imagine now more people more trucks..
