Beginner Gardening: Drainage help, 1 by dovebydesign

dovebydesign wrote:
Ok, so I am a gardener and so I would put in a garden that uses the water and perhaps diverts it. I have made a picture of an idea for you. You can purchase rain barrells or you could make your own. There are several ideas I could give you about them if you want.

Then landscape the lawn into a garden that redirects the water run off and puts it to use as it was meant by nature to be. This is just an idea that I attached. A place for you to start your own creative ideas. The rain barrels may freeze in the winter but you are saying that it rains, then water runs off and you get ice, so I am thinking you may not be in a full winter zone? Where are you located?

I also think that sustainable gardening may help. That being gardening that once it is established you don't have to do too much to make it look nice.

I get loads of my stuff from neighbours, friends, discount sales, master gardener club sales in.around the area.

French drains, basically as described are just a pit that collects and hold excess water, and so is a rain barrell. You can put a tap on the barrell and use it to water or when it gets full open it up and direct it with a hose to where you want it to go. They also have overflow hose that you can then tuck to the back of the garden in a way as to use the water wisely for the plants.

For mosquitos, it usally is not a problem if the unit is properly sealed. But you can add mosquito bits if it is problematic. A bottle of them from walmart is around 5 bucks, they prevent them from breeding/spawning or whatever they do in the water. I use them in one of my ponds.

I hope you have a subscription here, so that you can supersize the images. Let me know.

Susan Dove
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