Rain

Rain garden benefits and tips Plan a garden to divert, capture, and filter rainwater

Rain garden benefits and tips Plan a garden to divert, capture, and filter rainwater
  • 1978
  • Pierce Walters
  1. What are the benefits of using a rain garden?
  2. How do rain gardens improve water quality?
  3. How does a rain garden help reduce runoff?
  4. What is a rain garden and how can it reduce stormwater runoff?
  5. Do rain gardens really work?
  6. Where should I put my rain garden?
  7. What are the best plants for a rain garden?
  8. Do rain gardens attract mosquitoes?
  9. Are Rain Gardens Low Maintenance?
  10. Which plants soak up lots of water?
  11. How can stormwater runoff be reduced?
  12. How do I stop my yard from retaining water?

What are the benefits of using a rain garden?

Filter pollutants from runoff, • Recharge groundwater, • Conserve water, • Protect guts, ponds and coastal waters, • Remove standing water in your yard, • Reduce mosquito breeding, • Increase beneficial insects that eliminate pests, • Reduce potential of home flooding, • Create habitat for birds & butterflies, • ...

How do rain gardens improve water quality?

By capturing runoff in shallow depressions and letting it soak into the ground, rainwater gardens also help recharge stores of groundwater in aquifers. Moreover, they filter out sediment and other pollutants by catching close to the first inch of runoff, which contains the highest concentration of pollutants.

How does a rain garden help reduce runoff?

Rain gardens capture runoff from impervious surface areas such as rooftops and driveways and allow it to seep slowly into the ground. Most importantly, rain gardens help pre- serve nearby streams and ponds by reducing the amount of polluted runoff and filtering pollutants.

What is a rain garden and how can it reduce stormwater runoff?

A rain garden is a depressed area in the landscape that collects rain water from a roof, driveway or street and allows it to soak into the ground. Planted with grasses and flowering perennials, rain gardens can be a cost effective and beautiful way to reduce runoff from your property.

Do rain gardens really work?

Rain gardens are effective in removing up to 90% of nutrients and chemicals and up to 80% of sediments from the rainwater runoff. Compared to a conventional lawn, rain gardens allow for 30% more water to soak into the ground. ... Because rain gardens will drain within 12-48 hours, they prevent the breeding of mosquitoes.

Where should I put my rain garden?

The rain garden should be located in a place that can collect as much impervious area (driveway, roof, sidewalks) runoff as possible. The best areas are generally where water naturally drains but doesn't hold water. It should also be located at least 5'-15' away from your home.

What are the best plants for a rain garden?

For rain garden plants that get partial shade, consider:

Do rain gardens attract mosquitoes?

Will mosquitoes like rain gardens too? No. Mosquitoes require at least seven days of standing water to complete their cycle before. A properly constructed rain garden should drain within twenty-four hours after a rain event.

Are Rain Gardens Low Maintenance?

When planted with native grasses and flowering perennials, rain gardens can be a cost effective, low maintenance and beautiful way to reduce and filter runoff from your property.

Which plants soak up lots of water?

10 Impressive Plants That Absorb Lots of Water

How can stormwater runoff be reduced?

You can do a lot to help minimize stormwater problems

  1. Maintain your car or truck. ...
  2. Wash your car at a commercial car wash rather than in the street or in your driveway. ...
  3. Drive less. ...
  4. Cut down on fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. ...
  5. Remove part or all of your lawn. ...
  6. If you are on a septic system, maintain the system.

How do I stop my yard from retaining water?

For a yard with more than one area that floods, you can create multiple rain gardens, or you can opt to direct water from one low-lying area via a trench and a buried perforated pipe, such as the FLEX-Drain 4-inch by 12-foot Perforated Flexible Pipe (available from SupplyHouse), to a single rain garden.

Potatoes Growing Potatoes in Your Vegetable Garden
Growing Potatoes in Your Vegetable Garden
Plant seed potato segments cut-side down (eyes up) in a 6-inch-deep hole or trench. Space each segment 12-inches apart on all sides. Between each segm...
Organic Why garden organically?
Why garden organically?
Organic gardening helps to prevent a loss of topsoil, toxic runoff, water pollution, soil contamination, soil poisoning, death of insects, birds, crit...
Cauliflower How to Grow Cauliflower
How to Grow Cauliflower
Cauliflower likes to grow in full sun and rich, moist, well-drained soil with a pH between 6 and 7. Till the soil to loosen it to a depth of 12-15 inc...

Yet No Comments