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Need help with garden flooding after rain!!
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Posted by
silverchez (
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Sat, Jan 26, 13 at 23:09
| I am freaking out! Just planted some rosemary, mint, and lemon balm, and I woke up this morning to find my garden flooded and some of the soil eroded. The area is confined by the patio on one side, a brick wall on the other, and the rest is open lawn (where our future raised garden beds will be). Should I be concerned? Should I try some method to help with water drainage?? |
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RE: Need help with garden flooding after rain!!
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| Sucks having your careful gardening work upended by Mother Nature, but all we can do is grin and bear it, then clean up the mess next week. |
RE: Need help with garden flooding after rain!!
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| Yeah I know :( I was just curious if I needed to find a way to solve this issue, or leave it be. :) |
RE: Need help with garden flooding after rain!!
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| What can you do but wait it out? I'd recheck everything (tamp down and resituate as needed) in a couple days once it starts drying out. We do get some pretty fierce rains once in a while, particularly during monsoon season, so you may want to consider a border of some manner to keep soil from washing over the bricks in the future. Good luck! I'm sure everything will be fine. |
RE: Need help with garden flooding after rain!!
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| I agree. This happens so infrequently that spending more than 5 minutes and $5 to 'fix' the problem is pointless. |
RE: Need help with garden flooding after rain!!
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| Fun pic and post, thanks for sharing them. I agree with the others--it really doesn't look THAT bad, and soon enough it'll dry out and all will be fine. I wouldn't worry about it at all. If the soil gets disturbed easily/often you could use some smooth river rock as a mulch/stabilizer (and it's easy to lift a dozen stones to plant a small plant and then put them back in. Keep us posted on how things work out. Happy gardening! |
RE: Need help with garden flooding after rain!!
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| If runoff from your hardscape becomes a problem you could easily buy/install a roll of plastic border edging that will channel away most of the water. You wouldn't need tall edging there unless you were going for some kind of visual effect. |
RE: Need help with garden flooding after rain!!
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| Thanks everyone for your insight! I am so excited to have my own little space to garden in, as my bf and I just moved into our first home :) Next on the list: ripping out the grass and installing raised flowerbeds! I've been reading so much here and on the web...although I've learned a lot, feel like I have a ways to go! :) |
RE: Need help with garden flooding after rain!!
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| "I've been reading so much here and on the web...although I've learned a lot, feel like I have a ways to go! :)" Don't worry; we all feel that way! |
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