Planning Your Rain Garden
Creating a rain garden in your yard is a simple, cost-effective project.
Below you’ll find six simple steps to help you along:
Creating a rain garden in your yard is a simple, cost-effective project.
Below you’ll find six simple steps to help you along:
Dig an 8” deep test hole, and fill the hole with water. Check back after 24 hours and measure how far down the water has drained.
Example: I have 240 sqft. of rooftop draining to a downspout I will disconnect. My test hole drained 4” in 24 hours. My rain garen will be 4″ deep. I then divide 240 by 4, and my rain garden will be 60 sqft.
(This calculation is from The Blue Thumb Guide to Raingardens by Rusty Schmidt, Dan Shaw, and David Dods, 2007.)