Pacific Northwest Gardening: Planning Party at Outta's , 0 by outtamygourd

outtamygourd wrote:
Okay...let's take a walk behind the house to the boggy corner. We are walking due east, on the cardboard between the chain link fence and the weedy slope to the east corner, where the "bog" lies. There are several small natural springs which come out of the weedy slope, hence the reason for the french drain. The drain empties on the east side here. This area is nearly always wet, even during the summer though does dry out a bit. In the bottom center you can see where the drain empties. The property line follows the curvature of the land here. This is the place we call the "swamp."