How To Design And Build A Rain Garden
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How to design and build a rain garden. The type of soil you have. In the final step to make a rain garden arrange your plants spacing according to label directions. Lay out a rope or hose in the desired shape to use as a guide for digging.
Creating a rain garden creating a rain garden can be as simple as directing the flow of water from your roof to a spot that you ve already planted with water loving plants or you can start from scratch. If your garden is placed on a slope use the soil from digging to create a berm on the downhill side of the rain garden. The size of the garden depends on the size of the impermeable area draining into it.
A rain garden does not need a specific shape to function properly so feel free to be creative. The next step in rain garden design is to dig out your rain garden. How deep you make yours depends on the following.
If a rain barrel has been installed on the gutter downspout redirect the overflow from the rain barrel to the rain garden through an underground pipe. Consider all the rules of composition screening and circulation not just the rule that says to put a rain garden in a low spot 10 feet from the house. Choose the plants for your rain garden.
For slopes between 5 7 create a rain garden 6 7 inches 15 3 17 8 centimeters deep. When designing a rain garden to manage runoff from the roof redirect your gutter downspout s to point towards your rain garden and reroute the water through an underground pipe or a bioswale. The composition of the soil that you add to your rain garden can vary slightly depending on of your existing soil.
Rain gardens are usually between 4 8 inches 10 2 20 3 centimeters deep. This way you ll know everything you need to do. How wide your rain garden will be.