We had a very wet year and it killed off most of my garden from standing water. I’d like your ideas on a cheap way to drain this off
7 Responses to “how can I get better drainage in my veg garden?”
san_ann68 Said:
irrigate it
Matchstick Man Said:
you can buy corrugated tubing (also called culvert pipe) at a home improvement store, it’s pretty cheap an comes in a roll or 10 foot sections. bury it in a few rows of the garden and runit away from the garden
BARRIE Said:
Would digging a drainage ditch surrounding you veg garden help. The alternative is to create a raised bed for your veg garden.
judy a Said:
Raised beds – either add new dirt to mound it up or dig out slight trenches and use trench dirt to raise bed.
Add more humus rich materials – compost, etc, to make the dirt better able to drain /absorb water.
Dig the garden bed so there is a slight slant, and at lowest point dig a trench out toward the rest of the yard so the garden runoff will go somewhere else.
Gypsy Said:
Buy some top soil and raise the level and bury PVC pipe with lots of holes drilled on top and sides, you can buy it at Home Depot. Make sure the pipe is on an incline so it can drain.
copestir Said:
I put in raised bed. They have some interesting and affordable ways to install them through a mail order supply company called Gardeners supply. I filled the bed with sandy loam and organic material. However, I also put in my own drains. I did that with materialm I got from Home Depot. The earth was so soft it was easy to did trenches.
tassie Said:
Raise your garden beds, you could do this by using timber sleepers and filling with extra loamy soil, nothing with to much clay content and by adding organic matter like Mushroom Compost, or prepared composts from your Garden Centre.
If the area around your garden is flooded frequently, using a form of Drainage, either brought drainage pipe or rubble drains may help.
Remember though all this run off has to have somewhere to go, eg. storm water
I have a garden drainage problem so … can anyone give me any ideas on how to stop my garden flooding every time we have a down pour.
its only a tiny front garden but it is turfed.
i did get told sand helps but am unsure if this is true.
gravel is not an option as i
I live in South Carolina and have the “wonderful” southern clay in my garden. What can I put in there to help water drain? We had a storm today and there is literately about 4 inches of standing water in there right now. It’s going to be a vegetable garden, so it can’t be anything
Having recently moved into a newly built property, which has a flat garden with approx 10 to 15 cm of top soil covering a clay base, were finding it’s gradually filling up with rain water and not dispersing away, any ideas from people who have found themselves in a similar situation.
Our garden is all grass and we are planning on cutting all the turf out this month and then landscaping the garden a section at a time over the winter.
Will removing the grass cause any drainage/flooding problems when its rains as it will all be mud for a while in the garden?
I need some help and advice.
Our garden is approximately 30 feet long and 20 feet wide, with a gentle slope downwards away from the house. Unfortunately, the soil is clay and is holding onto the water like a sponge. Water isn’t draining well at the bottom of the garden due to their being
irrigate it
you can buy corrugated tubing (also called culvert pipe) at a home improvement store, it’s pretty cheap an comes in a roll or 10 foot sections. bury it in a few rows of the garden and runit away from the garden
Would digging a drainage ditch surrounding you veg garden help. The alternative is to create a raised bed for your veg garden.
Raised beds – either add new dirt to mound it up or dig out slight trenches and use trench dirt to raise bed.
Add more humus rich materials – compost, etc, to make the dirt better able to drain /absorb water.
Dig the garden bed so there is a slight slant, and at lowest point dig a trench out toward the rest of the yard so the garden runoff will go somewhere else.
Buy some top soil and raise the level and bury PVC pipe with lots of holes drilled on top and sides, you can buy it at Home Depot. Make sure the pipe is on an incline so it can drain.
I put in raised bed. They have some interesting and affordable ways to install them through a mail order supply company called Gardeners supply. I filled the bed with sandy loam and organic material. However, I also put in my own drains. I did that with materialm I got from Home Depot. The earth was so soft it was easy to did trenches.
Raise your garden beds, you could do this by using timber sleepers and filling with extra loamy soil, nothing with to much clay content and by adding organic matter like Mushroom Compost, or prepared composts from your Garden Centre.
If the area around your garden is flooded frequently, using a form of Drainage, either brought drainage pipe or rubble drains may help.
Remember though all this run off has to have somewhere to go, eg. storm water