Digging Deeper with Backyard Farmer | Rain Gardens

Kelly Feehan, UNL Extension Educator, teaches about how to start a rain garden. She includes information on site selection, size, and soil type. Kelly also discusses what makes a garden a rain garden.

[@maggiemanzke7926]

This is the best primer-level information I've found yet on youtube about rain gardens. Thank you very much for posting it!

[@philipkwong9075]

Thanks for sharing your presentation about rain gardens. It is very informative. My yard has no grade/slope, it is flat; how can I determine the depth of the garden to dig?
Water will be diverted to it from a buried downspout drainage pipe, which has a 1% slope.

[@dankeener3307]

I hope you got your rain garden in. I guess the important thing is to be able to direct the water to a safe place that won’t flow back to the house if the rain garden overflows. For all 5 of my rain gardens I kept them 10 feet from the house and never did a perk test. I guess I happened to be in a perfect space for these gardens. For one garden there is a 45-gallon rain barrel that fills and then the overflow goes into the garden. So many possibilities. My rain gardens are simple depressions with berms from the soil removed to create the basin. I used mostly plants native to our region that would attract pollinators, host caterpillars and benefit our bird population.