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04-19-2009, 02:12 PM
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Rain Gardens
Has anyone here put a rain garden in their yard?
I started to consider one after I hooked up the RO/DI at the new house and had it drain the waste water into the basement sump. Since the water is draining outside away from house, I noticed how much the extra water was eroding the ground. The gutters on the house also tend to drain to the same area in the yard. All of this water then heads about 3 or 4 lots down and pools in a neighbors yard. Once this area fills up it runs to a stream about 1/4 mile away.
On of the purposes of the water garden is to keep run-off out of the streams, in-turn that keeps pollutants out of the streams as well.
I am considering one that will attract butterflies and hummingbirds with mostly native perennials.
Anyway, if you have one, post a few pics and your experiences (good or bad).
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04-19-2009, 02:48 PM
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Intersting concept Eric, I am not familiar with it, but it sounds cool 
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04-19-2009, 03:29 PM
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OK, I am downloading it now, its gonna take a while 
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04-19-2009, 03:30 PM
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Clowns Galore!
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Headed out to the yard now to determine the slope.
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04-19-2009, 03:34 PM
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Son of Jor El
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We have standing water everytime it rains. This Missouri soil is just clay and water runs off or sits... there is very little soaking in.
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04-19-2009, 03:55 PM
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Clowns Galore!
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Originally Posted by jenglish
We have standing water everytime it rains. This Missouri soil is just clay and water runs off or sits... there is very little soaking in.
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The soil is a bit better here than it was in St. Louis. I'm still only about 2 or 3 hours north of you here in Sedalia.
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04-19-2009, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by ScruffyRubicon
Headed out to the yard now to determine the slope.
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I have a 5% slope and about 400 sq. ft. of roof per downspout. Looks like I need about a 130 sq. ft. rain garden.
Now I need to wait a day or two for the ground to dry out so I can figure out how fast the water absorbs into soil.
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04-19-2009, 04:57 PM
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Ghost of reefers past
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Well the download failed, gotta love dial down 
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04-19-2009, 05:12 PM
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Well the download failed, gotta love dial down |
That's no good!
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04-19-2009, 05:12 PM
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The fun part of all of this will be when the 14yo finds out he gets to help me dig it out next weekend!
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04-19-2009, 06:46 PM
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Son of Jor El
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 I remember many such surprises when I was a kid. I think that is one thing I am looking forward to about kids is project labor 
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The fun part of all of this will be when the 14yo finds out he gets to help me dig it out next weekend!
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Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky went hunting? Well anyway, Brasky decides he's gonna hunt down all four members of the Banana Splits. He stalks and kills every one of them with a machete. They all beg for their lives, except Fleagul.
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04-19-2009, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by ScruffyRubicon
I have a 5% slope and about 400 sq. ft. of roof per downspout. Looks like I need about a 130 sq. ft. rain garden.
Now I need to wait a day or two for the ground to dry out so I can figure out how fast the water absorbs into soil.
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10x13= 130 sq ft, shoot, i can do that with my pick before even firing up the roto tiller, how deep do you have to dig it out?
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04-19-2009, 11:09 PM
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10x13= 130 sq ft, shoot, i can do that with my pick before even firing up the roto tiller, how deep do you have to dig it out?
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Only 6". It could be worse.
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04-19-2009, 11:20 PM
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Only 6". It could be worse.
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Well at my house the first 6" is the rocks I have to haul out, sound easy its good for a 14 yr old, at that age I was knee deep in dairy "mud"
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