Best tips to handle drainage problems in garden

Slushy and slippery soil is literally what you had in mind on seeing you outdoor garden. During moderate to heavy rainfall months, most of the gardeners have seen their gardens turn to swamps. Are you looking for the easy ways to improve your garden drainage?? Then this is the right place. Proper drainage can also prevent problems with both inside your home and can also prevent damage to your brickwork too. Don't know when to start sowing your vegetable seeds, check the chart for planting vegetables.

In this blog we’ll discuss what are all the cost-effective tips to handle drainage problems in your garden and how to find out if yours is retaining too much water.

Test to check that your garden has poor water drainage:

 Before starting, you drainage solutions, you have to confirm that your garden has issue in draining water. Take this test in your garden:

•  Dig a hole in your garden. (Approx. 2 feet or 60 cm deep)

• Pour water and fill the hole. Leave it for three to four hours

• Now see if the water is still there. If yes, then it's the sign that your garden need a drainage.

 Instead of getting discouraged about your lawn, gear up and do the followings.

Is the water flow route into your garden area??

Route your water flow opposite to your garden area. Just get out there with pieces of shovel or trowel to divert it from garden area. You can make a dig and filled up it with gravel and route the excess water there. This is the most essential step that should follow first to handle drainage problems in garden.

Plant water-loving plants:

Choose plants depend upon your weather, locale, soil and amount of sun, plants that absorb water. This will definitely help you by absorbing excess water from soil and also increase the soil's water holding capacity.

Try improving the soil:

If your drainage problem is not that much severe, you can lighten the soil by dig in lots of organic matters. Because soil with high organic content allows excess water easily flow through it, also absorbing moisture that needed. The most cheap and effective way of doing this is to create your own compost. Check how to make fertilizer from waste at home.

Try to use bark chippings:

 Bark chippings are very great in absorbing moisture and thus improving drainage of your garden. This also helps in preventing weed growth.

Install Drain Tile:

An intensive solution to altering your garden with poor drainage is to dig the soil and install underground drainage tile. Analyze slope carefully , tile depth, and where the water will outlet. A bog garden or rain garden might be necessary near the drain tile outlet. It's best to involve a professional for installing this, but if you are okay to tackle it yourself, here are the steps to install this.

•  Dig a Trench

• Spread Gravel

• Cover and Protect Pipe

• Mask Outlet

 

Drainage problems do not need to ruin your garden. You can follow these tips and also use other solutions for yard drainage, you make it easier for your garden to grow beautiful.

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