Watering Garden Naturally

[Elanor]

Has anyone landscaped their yard, to make it possible to water their garden with rain? The yard would kind of slope or stair step down to the garden. I am just trying to figure out a way to naturally water my garden.

 

[Daisy1]

Rainwater barrels

You could always configure a way to catch rainwater in rain barrels and use those to water your garden. We sometimes have bans on using city water during the summer when we're under drought conditions, so catching every little bit of rain water is essential.

 

[MrsGreenJeans]

Natural irrigation

I haven't tried this either, but I would love to collect rain water and use it to water my plants. It is so much better for the flowers and plants than water out of any tap. Plus, I have to pay extra for the city water. That's a good savings.

 

[Atalanta]

I've heard of using rain barrels, but how do you get the water from the barrel to the garden? If you use a hose, you'd still have to ensure gravity was working for you. I just envision multiple trips with a watering jug.

 

[flowerchild]

Ideally, you should be able to keep the garden watered by lanscaping everything just right. However, I would have had to build my house around the garden rather than the other way around. Why don't you just do the best you can and then use the rain barrel. You can buy a small pump to help you pump out the water from the rain barrel. This woud be preferable to carrying buckets.

 

[Elanor]

I have already located my vegetable garden in the lowest part of my yard, so it might recieve rain. I never have to worry about that area flooding during the summer, because it hardly rains here. I was thinking I recalled a really old method of irragation, but for the life of me I can not think of it. I might get some rain barrels this year. Do they sell rain barrels at Lowe's? I do not recall seeing rain barrels there.

 

[jhoncarter247]

There are two basic types of rain gardens – under-drained and self-contained. Both types of rain gardens are used to improve stormwater quality, reduce runoff volumes and generally facilitate infiltration of cleaned water. Which type of garden is selected to be built is a balance of volumes of water to be treated, existing soil conditions, available space, and budget for the project.

In some cases where infiltration is not desired, the underdrain system can move excess water into a conventional storm sewer pipe system. Cases where infiltration would not be desirable would be if the bottom of the garden has less than 4’ of clearance to the seasonal mean high water table or if the adjacent soils are contaminated and the cleaned water from the garden would become recontaminated by coming in contact with the adjacent native solids.

Rain gardens are designed to be drained within four hours after a 1” rain event. Under-drained rain gardens typically are designed to drain within 2 hours of the design storm event. This is achieved through the use of highly porous planting media and underdrains which carry the cleaned rainwater away from the garden. As a result, the plants selected for the bioretention cell need to be able to withstand both the extremes of flooding and drought. Plants on the upper edges of the garden are often xeric in their cultural requirement descriptions with plants lower in the garden being more adapted to floodplain conditions. Many riparian edge species are particularly well suited to the extreme environments of rain gardens.

Rain gardens with no underdrain typically hold moisture longer, particularly in the lower areas of the garden. Plants selected for this garden should be able to tolerate inundation for a more extended period of time. However, as in the case of the underdrained rain garden, the surface is drained within four hours, although the soil may be saturated. As in the bioretention cell, soils are amended with a very porous planting media, minimally to a depth of 8” and ideally to a depth of 2’- 3’. The lower the amount of soil amendment added when the garden is built, the more necessary it is to have plants adapted to prolonged periods of wetness. As with the underdrained rain garden, the plants on the upper edges of the garden will need to be more xeric in their cultural requirements than the plants in the lower areas.
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