Hello! We have purchased a house in the North West. The back garden is massively retaining water. We are talking several cm of water in places for days after it rains.
We’ve had drain people come look and they want to dig out the whole thing and connect it with a waste pipe 100m away. £3600 pounds but more importantly very disruptive to the current ecosystem we’ve got in our garden.
Is there any affective ways to help with drainage. I know there must be ways in which people worked with nature to cure this problem before escalators were invented.
Some important points: – The garden is tiered. The bottom tier is flags and stone. The top tier is dry, the middle is waterlogged grass/moss. – The soil is probably clay beneath the top layer as that’s what is most prevelant here.
I’d love to do something creative, not just to save money but to be environmentally conscious too.
submitted by /u/Transcendentalme
[link] [comments]
