A small vegetable garden and two
rain gardens need regular weeding and maintenance and trees and shrubs planted for wildlife need annual attention.
Not exact matches
On the other hand, a shallow
rain garden will
need a lot of surface area to provide enough water storage to filtrate runoff from larger storms.
You may
need to water if your
rain garden dries out which won't happen often.
Wake Forest's horticulture crew excavated and installed a
rain garden on campus with only a line level and some string — no fancy laser levels or survey equipment
needed.
Leave it in your
garden to collect
rain water and you'll have a constant supply of water for the plants when you
need it.
Well it's been a wet and busy end to the week on the beaches, to be honest my
garden needed the
rain and the cooler weather was the purrrfect excuse for some old fashioned English sausages, hot chocolate, marshmallows on sticks and a fire pit.
G'day from Sydney and a rainy Sunday with grey skies, the
garden needed the
rain that is for sure - we are heading into the Easter holiday with a mixed forecast, I'm taking some time off and was hoping to be making it to the beach every day, and we have a semi-planned camping trip, I LOVE Australian...
An alert from the
rain gauge could let you know if you
need to make time to water the
garden that day, or if you can skip it because of local rainfall, and while I didn't see this particular recipe, I imagine you could also set up a system to automatically turn off your sprinklers while it's
raining.
In the late summer I'm loooking for signs that our monsoon
rains will arrive, in the fall and spring I look for freezing temps that will affect my
garden, in the winter I'm seeing if I
need to bring in wood for the stove, and in early summer, I'm keeping an eye on high temperatures and winds that will dry out my trees and
garden quickly.