How to stop water from sitting in my flower beds?
When it rains, my flower bed fills to the top. What can I do to stop this before it's time to plant?
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It looks like this is a low spot in your lawn. You will need to re-contour the ground to move the water away - a swale. Here's a link:
https://www.tenthacrefarm.com/how-to-build-swale/
You'll need to build this area up a bit so water will drain away though from the image, it looks like it's the whole area surrounding it sloping in. You could do a small dry well to speed draining. Here's how we did one: https://www.flippingtheflip.com/2016/06/yard-works.html
Removing the edging or making small breaks in the edging will allow the water to run out. You can also add more soil to the area to bring it up and slope to allow water to run off.
That border should be at ground level just below lawn height. They prevent grass from growing into the bed. Yours is not set in correctly and creates rain water to pool.
dig a trench to drain the water away from it. A dry creek bed could look great
How To Add Drainage To A Flower Bed (With Pictures!)
https://homeefficiencyguide.com/how-to-add-drainage-to-a-flower-bed-with-pictures/
If you live in an extremely wet area, you could plant a weeping willow tree in that location. They "drink" up all the excess water and grow extremely fast! Just be sure it isn't near a foundation or water line.
Hi,
Dig in organic matter and sand, and grit to help drainage. If the garden slopes to that area or if it needs building up with soil, first build a retaining wall around it . Grow bog plants in there they will love it. or make a natural pond feature, Rockery etc.
The soil needs to drain well, something like sand will help with this. Also the water has no place to go to, maybe gaps in the border would help for lighter rains but would probably get overwhelmed with heavier ones. You will have to figure out where the water needs to go and make a pathway for it.
Here's a post that might help https://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/five-solutions-for-keeping-your-garden-puddle-free
Look at your garden bed and think about the science. Water collects in the lowest spot. That is your flower bed. It doesn’t matter about drains and sand and everything else. The rest of your yard is fine You simply need to increase the level of your bed.
Go to your garden store and get several bags of compost or soil amendment and work it into the bed. If you raise the level it will drain just like the rest of your yard.
Yes, you have to raise the bed and slope it down towards the outside. Use plants, possibly native wildflowers that love water and that will help. " A rain garden"
Space your brick edging further apart so water drains. Also adding Miracle Grow in the ground garden mix with a little topsoil will help it drain better.
Hi Beulah, you need to fix up you soil so it drains better, here is a link with some ideas on what to add to your soil to have it drain better
https://migardener.com/5-simple-ingredients-to-fix-poor-draining-soil/#:~:text=Sand%20is%20one%20of%20the,soil%20for%20good%20root%20development.&text=Mulching%20can%20do%20miracles%20for%20your%20soil.
If you have clay under the grass the water won't drain so you need to drain it away by leaving gaps in the border.