Rain Gardens 101 - Full Video
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2018
- This video created in partnership with Winona County will walk you through the actions needed to properly maintain a rain garden from installation through year three and beyond!
View all parts here:
Part One: Introduction to Rain Gardens: • Rain Gardens 101, Part...
Part Two: Types of Rain Gardens: • Rain Gardens 101, Part...
Part Three: Rain Garden Maintenance: • Rain Gardens 101, Part...
Part Four: Weeding Your Rain Garden: • Rain Gardens 101, Part...
Part Five: Reassessing Your Rain Garden: • Rain Gardens 101, Part...
I’ve created a system of rain gardens where no rain leaves our property and also receives rain from neighbors driveway and street runoff. We have native plants for pollinators and birds and fruit trees for our consumption. It’s a fun challenge utilizing the blessing of rain and supporting wildlife and us both. Great video! I’d skip the Glysophate and not be too hard on dandelions as they’re nutritious and support pollinators.
Do not use chemicals period.
^^ this!. Common gardeners are taught to grow plants using the same method commercial farmers do. The reason farmers have to use all the chemicals is because they grow a monoculture (1 single type of plant) which becomes a breeding ground for pests. When they add the pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, they completely kill the soil biology. After that, the only nutrition available for the crops is what the farmer feeds them via fertilizers.
If you don't add any chemicals to your natural gardens they will always have plenty of nutrition and the plants share it rather than compete for it.
How can you talk about protecting water ways AND support the use of glyphosate???
Thank you, this is one of the better videos I've seen on this subject
Might consider this. With how the water flows toward our house , it ended up getting into our basement. Thinking of putting a rain garden of some sort in front of the house just to add in another preventative measure.
Use swales and catchment to stop water and or divert it from going near your home. As a rule of thumb, you don't want water puddling within 10-20 feet from your foundation. But other than that, any water that is allowed to pool and sink into the ground is helping with the hydrological cycle in your area.
how amazing is the tone of that voice?
Great video. We're working on this our community.
so glad you've found permaculture principles woohoo
Spraying an area that catches water?? what an advice!!
marvelous!!! SUPER. Greetings from México.
Nice graphics!! ✨🌟✨👍👍💪💚
Really didn’t get why not weeds as dandelions, they are good for pollinators
And edible!
Gliphosate??! Are you kidding me? How would this be part of the solution??!??
Just an FYI for anyone watching this: the definition of a weed is "a plant growing where it is not wanted." No specific type of plant is a weed.. This lady is naming specific plants she doesn't want in her garden, that doesn't mean you don't want them in yours.
Plants and trees don't compete for nutrition, they actually share them. The more roots you have in the ground, the more nutrition that will he available for the plants, and the more water that will soak into the ground.
It's true "weed" is not a technical term, but she is not just naming specific plants she doesn't like, she's naming invasive plants that spread aggressively. It's not as simple as "more roots is better"; invasive weeds DO compete for resources - minerals, water, sun - with native flora and by extension fauna that rely on specific plants for food/reproduction. Even if they don't cause a problem in your yard, by not taking care of your land, you are facilitating their spread to nearby meadows and forests where they'll run rampant, throwing off balance in the local ecosystem.
I disagree with her that you should resort to spraying poison near freshwater runoff, but the principle of suppressing invasives to help establish beneficial native plants is certainly a good one.
@kyu_puff invasive plants would count as a plant that is growing where you don't want it. So in that context, they would be weeds. My point was that specific plants are not weeds, it's any plant growing in certain unwanted situations that make them weeds. I live in the midwest, and everyone here thinks that if it isn't grass, flowers, fruits, or vegetables, then it's a weed. That is the wrong way of thinking because diversity of native wild vegetation is far better than manicured lawns or gardens.
@@IowaKeith Sure, but the specific plants she mentioned are invasives, and for someone who cares about native planting, would always be considered a weed.
Enjoyed the video but stopped watching the minute Glyphosate was described as an option. This is never an option from my perspective as it is deadly to pollinators. Please do not use!
What!? No mention of willow feeders and other humanure/urine cycling blackwater systems? How about as alternatives to french drains and other building drainage infrastructure systems? So many applications where plants can help with water infiltration and soil regeneration.
Glyphosate is not safe or advised... Just say no to Glyphosate!
Please do not waste your garden/yard on this, they pushed the same thing here in Australia.
If you don't want grass, do a food forest. It will absorb water AND feed you and your family. Rain gardens are a waste of time and investment.
So stay in Australia and shut the fuck up, ass hole.
I agree with you in someways but if you do this it also helps with food gardens I’ve done it my apple, plums and nut trees and they get so much water I never need to water them and the produce tons of food while not letting good soil erode off my land. I plan to do something similar for a flower garden near my vegetable garden so I can pollinate even more.
The depression in a rain garden is a basin, which is necessary in high intensity rain events compared to the absorptive capacity of soil alone. In high intensity events soil acts almost like pavement as water can't infiltrate into the soil fast enough, so you need the depression to provide storage in that case. Same with spring snowmelt when the soil is frozen (not a problem in Australia but certainly in lots of places in the world). You may live in an area where low-intensity storms are the norm and the benefits are less well-defined. Also some jurisdictions use the term rain garden for features in the public realm which are geared for filtration of contaminants in road and parking lot runoff, making food consumption from them a non-starter. However, where I live, in cold semi-arid Canada, food forests and rain gardens taken from roof runoff live together happily for the best of all worlds. Your blanket statement is less than informed.
Rain gardens can be simple and inexpensive. For our property I only made small depressions and planted native plants. Most of those plants were taken from divisions of plants already on our property. Our land perks very well so I never had to add sand or gravel. We love the results and happy to keep all the rainfall on our property as well as receive our neighbor’s runoff and water from the street is diverted into our roadside rain garden created when we removed our sidewalk. I wonder why rain gardens didn’t work for you. The food forest idea is great too and I’ve done that with rain gardens.
Glyphosate! I'm outta here....