Getting Rid Of Standing Water In Your Yard
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Article by: Michael McGroarty Do you have one or more areas in your yard , That Summer Feeling Doesn’t Have to End that hold water , The Secret To Healthier Plants? Le?’s Ask My Grandfather. after a rainfall? This is a common problem, and sometimes difficult to solve. Over the years I've talked with dozens of people trying to battle this problem, and on several occasions I have been hired to solve the problem. So what can be done? Too often people come to me asking what kind of a tree, , Style Your Home With Decorative Plantation Shutters or what kind of shrubs , To Picket Fences can be planted in a wet area to dry it up. This is the wrong approach. Most plants, , Gardening - A Relaxing Hobby and I mean almost all plants , Blinds add a touch of warmth, beauty and decor to any room! are not going to survive in an area where the soil , Improving Deer Quality in Northeastern Pa is soggy for extended periods of time. 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In many new home , Geranium Plants developments I've seen stormwater catch basins already installed in backyards. , Laying Out Your New Landscape Trust me, this is a good thing. There is nothing worse than having a soggy yard , The Lamps in Your Home! all the time. If you are fortunate to have some fall , Three Choice Arborvitae For Your Landscape to your yard, , What Are Light Fixtures Used For? or a stormwater system that you can drain water , Stihl Chainsaws - Still Going Strong into, this problem is easy to solve. Make sure you check with your local , Gardening - A Relaxing Hobby officials before you do anything at all with a storm drain. All you have to do is go to your local , What Are Light Fixtures Used For? building supply center and buy some 4" perforated plastic , Deer Don't Eat Dragons!! drain pipe. The best kind for this purpose is the flexible kind that comes in 100' rolls. This type of drain pipe has small slits all around the pipe. 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The highest point is going to be the area that you are trying to drain, so you only want your pipe deep enough at this point so it can be covered with soil. , A Look at Electrician Training Once the trench is dug just lay the pipe in. At the highest end of the pipe you'll need to insert a strainer into the end of the pipe to keep soil , The Benefits Of A Professional Realtor® from entering the pipe. Cover the pipe with some washed stone, , Tips for Planting Flower Bulbs and then backfill the trench with soil. , The Lamps in Your Home! The washed stone , Stihl Chainsaws - Still Going Strong creates a void around the pipe so that the water , A Look at Electrician Training can find its way into the pipe. Washed stone , Gardening: Creating Your Own Private Paradise is usually inexpensive stone , Part III: What are the most popular floorplan features? that has been washed so it is clean and free of mud. The only part of the pipe that needs to be exposed is the low end, where the water , A Look at Electrician Training exits the pipe. Do not put a strainer in that end. If you do not have anywhere that you can drain the water , Orchid Care: How Orchids Grow to, you still might be able to do something. But first consider what is happening, and why the water , Pool Table Lights Guide: How To Light Up Your Game is standing where it is. Even if you have well drained soil, , Gardening - A Relaxing Hobby water , The Secret To Healthier Plants? Le?’s Ask My Grandfather. cannot soak in fast enough during periods of heavy rain, and it runs across the top of the ground and eventually finds the lowest point, and either leaves the property, , Florida Isn't Just For Tourists or gets trapped. If you have well drained soil, , The Secret To Healthier Plants? Le?’s Ask My Grandfather. the trapped water , Bare Root Roses, what to look for when buying usually soaks in. If you have heavy clay soil, , Container Gardening Indoors and Outdoors the water , Tips for Planting Flower Bulbs lays there, and the soil , Pool Table Lights Guide: How To Light Up Your Game underneath becomes very compacted, and the problem compounds itself. The more water , Home Reno Plans: Value Added Or Value Subtracted? that stands, the worse the drainage gets. What I have done in areas like this, where there is standing water, , Feeding Your Plants but nowhere to drain it to, is to install a French drain system that actually carries the water , Container Gardening Tips for Newbies away from the low area, and allows it to seep into the ground over a larger distance, where the soil , Sleeping Beauties: Porches For Dreaming is not quite so compacted. To install this French drain system you do everything exactly as explained above, except instead of draining the water , The Secret To Healthier Plants? 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Because this soil , Deer Don't Eat Dragons!! has not been compacted by the standing water , Sleeping Beauties: Porches For Dreaming and the baking sun, , Choosing Blinds For Damp Atmospheres it will accept the water. , A Vast World of Lamp Shades. It won't happen nearly as fast as if you could just drain the water , Blinds add a touch of warmth, beauty and decor to any room! to a ditch, but at least you will have a mechanism in place , Online Garden Seed Exchanges that will eventually disperse the water , Burning Bushes Do Well in Buckingham Township back into the soil. , Feeding Your Plants It's a lot easier to leach 200 gallons of water , What Are Light Fixtures Used For? into a series of trenches that total 100 lineal feet, than it is to expect that water , Gardening: Creating Your Own Private Paradise to leach into a 10' by 10' area that is hard and compact. 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