What to do about my flooded yard?
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My New Garden | Posted:
Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:37 am
My yard floods, badly. The only spot that doesn't stand in water and gets sun because it's not under a ton of trees is in the back right side of my yard.
But, it has a ton of roots on top of the soil.
I was doing square foot gardening at my old house and I want to continue it here as well. But there is no way I can do it without either removing the roots (not gonna happen) or building that area up.
The only solution I can think of is to use all the mulching stuff that we removed from around the yard to lay a barrier down, then put my 12 x 4 beds on top of it.
Would using old mulch, that is mostly leaves and pine needles, be a problem you think? I could cover it with black cloth to keep the weeds and pokey nature of it down.
It would also serve a purpose in keeping the garden raised enough to not sit in water.
Lay of the land ( photo / image / picture from LittleSister's Garden )
Mulch again ( photo / image / picture from LittleSister's Garden )
Huge pile of 'mulch' ( photo / image / picture from LittleSister's Garden )
Eventually I'd like to build a little raised deck with built in beds somehow. But that will have to come after a ton of other things.
I'd love to hear your comments and/or any other solutions.
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My new house!
Category:
My New Garden | Posted:
Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:39 pm
We bought a house! The inside is a bit older but that's part of it's charm.
The yard is pretty much a blank slate.
I've spent days and days raking. There were pine needles and leaves piled up around every tree and up against the house. In some places it was 2 feet thick! Bug harboring mess.
I do have an idea to use the stuff I raked up. I'll post about it to see if it's a valid idea.
Thanks for looking!
Front of house ( photo / image / picture from LittleSister's Garden )
You can check my photo album for the rest of the pics
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