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Vetiver Grass is used as a land stablilisation tool due to its downward root growth and thick roots with high tensile strength. Pictured here is an example of how it might work when planted in the soil.

This is growing in greywater in a biochar medium and is the initial treatment subsurface stage which then flows through more rows of Vetiver to absorb any excess missed nutrients.

What's Vetiver? https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=i5cORxJ6N-o

https://postimg.cc/HJ042kvv - original resolution here (click zoom).

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Brilliant! I'm an amateur gardener in the US. Wondering if the are any variants of this grass that would grow in usda zone 5?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nope. It's a tropical grass.

Your closest are Switchgrass and the exotic sterile Miscanthus.

I'll get a thread where I found some info for another American and edit it in.

Edit: Check here - https://aussie.zone/post/166587 - the photo is down at the moment. Might appear later.

I've got a copy here:

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