Pile Weaving: Living Stakes That Sprout

A slope stabilized with branches. A row of fresh, living wooden stakes is driven into the soil along the contour lines, spaced approximately fifty centimeters apart. Flexible branches are woven horizontally between the stakes to form a low fence, like basket weaving. Soil is backfilled behind the fence. Because the stakes and branches are alive, new shoots will emerge from the joints after a few months, growing into a row of shrubs, transforming the entire structure into a living retaining slope. Avoid: using dead wood stakes treated with preservatives, using wire and nails for fastening, making the woven fence too neat like a regular fence, using concrete backfill behind the fence.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一段用樹枝固定的邊坡。一排新鮮的活體木樁沿著等高線打進土裡,間距約五十公分;樁與樁之間用柔韌的枝條橫向編織成一道低矮的柵欄,像編籃子一樣。柵欄後方回填土壤。因為樁與枝條是活的,幾個月後會從接縫處冒出新芽長成一排灌木,整個構造變成活的護坡。避免:使用經過防腐處理的死木樁、用鐵絲與釘子固定、把編柵做得過於整齊像圍籬、在柵後使用混凝土回填。