Comments on: how can I get better drainage in my veg garden? http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-can-i-get-better-drainage-in-my-veg-garden/ Help with Your Blocked Drainage Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:29:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tassie http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-can-i-get-better-drainage-in-my-veg-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-233 tassie Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:52:38 +0000 http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-can-i-get-better-drainage-in-my-veg-garden/#comment-233 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 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

]]> By: copestir http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-can-i-get-better-drainage-in-my-veg-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-232 copestir Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:06:14 +0000 http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-can-i-get-better-drainage-in-my-veg-garden/#comment-232 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. 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.

]]> By: Gypsy http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-can-i-get-better-drainage-in-my-veg-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-231 Gypsy Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:41:59 +0000 http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-can-i-get-better-drainage-in-my-veg-garden/#comment-231 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. 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.

]]> By: judy a http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-can-i-get-better-drainage-in-my-veg-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-230 judy a Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:10:18 +0000 http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-can-i-get-better-drainage-in-my-veg-garden/#comment-230 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. 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.

]]> By: BARRIE http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-can-i-get-better-drainage-in-my-veg-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-229 BARRIE Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:36:28 +0000 http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-can-i-get-better-drainage-in-my-veg-garden/#comment-229 Would digging a drainage ditch surrounding you veg garden help. The alternative is to create a raised bed for your veg garden. Would digging a drainage ditch surrounding you veg garden help. The alternative is to create a raised bed for your veg garden.

]]> By: Matchstick Man http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-can-i-get-better-drainage-in-my-veg-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Matchstick Man Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:29:46 +0000 http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-can-i-get-better-drainage-in-my-veg-garden/#comment-228 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 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

]]> By: san_ann68 http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-can-i-get-better-drainage-in-my-veg-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-227 san_ann68 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:41:20 +0000 http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-can-i-get-better-drainage-in-my-veg-garden/#comment-227 irrigate it irrigate it

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