Mein Garten ist etwa 30 m lang und verläuft von meinem Haus aus mit einem Gefälle von etwa 5 % bergab. Die unteren 10 m sind derzeit sehr sumpfig, so dass dort Schilf wächst. Der angrenzende Garten ist etwas niedriger, verfügt aber über ein Trockenbrunnensystem und eine Pumpe, beide Seiten sind eben oder etwas höher, es gibt auch Probleme mit nassem Boden, aber nicht so schlimm wie bei uns.
Ich habe dort, wo der sumpfige Boden beginnt, ein Loch gegraben, und in etwa 30 cm Tiefe hat es sich ziemlich schnell mit Wasser gefüllt. Offensichtlich hatten wir ein paar sehr nasse Monate und so wie es jetzt ist, gibt es keine Möglichkeit, irgendeinen Abfluss zu graben, aber ich hoffe, dass ich in den trockeneren Monaten ein paar französische Abflüsse graben kann, die zu einem passiv dimensionierten Trockenbrunnen führen. Wenn der Grundwasserspiegel meiner Meinung nach so hoch ist, wird das nur Zeitverschwendung sein und ich sollte aufgeben und mich für einen Feuchtgarten entscheiden, oder sollte ich damit rechnen, das Problem fast das ganze Jahr über einigermaßen in den Griff zu bekommen?
Von: sfcol
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Giggity.
Make a pond section that’s lower
If you have a natural bog but want a “normal” garden, you’ll always be at war with it – as any time it rains more often, it will try to return to bog. Do you really need the space? Perhaps you could try to “dry out” a smaller section or do some sort of terraced garden for the top part and sacrifice the worst section to a pond/bog garden. I’ve seen pictures of cute gardens where the boggy ground has raised bridges-pathways with chairs, so the area is still useful, just not on the ground itself.
dig it out, and pond
Pond. Dont fight it, go with it.
Whenever my sextion is boggy, I know I’m in for a good night.
You can speak to your GP about this
Dig a pond.
Dig a pond and plant some water hungry plants.
Time for a sick ass pond
Plant a willow, I love those trees
People saying pond but it looks to me like there was already one there and it’s just been filled in a bit, you can see the outline of it. If it’s just boggy do the neighbours just the other side of that fence have a bog as well?
Embrace the wetland! There are so many cool flowers and plants that like wet feet like meadowsweet, loosestrife, water mint, marsh marigold, betony, camassias, hibiscuses, lobelias, certain primulas, most irises, cannas, etc. Raised seating deck+wetland cottage garden would be so lovely.
It would be a great place to make a living willow structure. They like wet soil.
Think not sexy thoughts, think not sexy thoughts
Did someone say something?
Some willows would suck that ground dry.
Stupid sexy bog
Mate that’s a wetland habitat! Its an asset!
Thanks a lot everyone. I should have mentioned in the OP that I’m planning on building a decent sized shed at the bottom eventually. Timber frame raised on piers to guard against the damp. That’d then lend itself to a nice little pond to the side and some cultivated wetland to the front with a raised walkway / bridge. I presume I’d still get the maximum out of a pond by digging some french drains leading to it and making it as deep as I can? One consideration is that we have a toddler, but I guess with some marshy land before a deep pond, that’d be close enough to safe
There has been an absolutely wild amount of rain this winter. I’d wait until spring and dig a pond of some description.
Have you tried putting it in rice?
I’d plant some thirsty trees, especially as you mention having a toddler, rather than a pond
don’t have sex on it. keep it cut regularly. install french land drains or a couple of trees.
As others have said, a pond is the best option. That ground wants to be wet so you’re never going to be able to fully drain it, it will always want to be wet, that’s why the rushes* (not reeds) are there! Cut back the vegetation as low as you can so you can see what you’re dealing with, then dig a pond at the lowest, wettest point and the water will drain into there.
I don’t think you’d need French drains to achieve this, that might cause too much water to flow into it and dry out the rest of your garden too much. I’d dig the pond and leave it for a year to see how much its improved before doing any additional drainage. You might need to accept that you can’t build a shed there though, again I’d do the pond and wait and see what happens first.
Right behind my house as I go outside it’s like this at the moment, I don’t suffer boggyness, I have apple trees down the side of my garden too and they are only so thirsty!
In the summer they drink the ground dry, but right now we have had so much rain the ground is saturated.
As for your shed idea, a decent base should be the plan, sub base of about 4″ with 4″ of concrete on top, so it’s nice and stable. I’m lucky my ground has a lot of chalk in, which when used in it’s own drains quite well as a sub base.
Embrace the sog, become the bog 😅
Seriously though, you’ll be pulling your hair out for decades if you try and fight it.
There’s a good cluster of Alders there, a classic sigh that you have a good sensible spring flow of actual proper water, and not a stagnant hole.
It really will make an amazing and abundant wetland garden and pond.
I bet its an existing pond that hasnt had the liner removed and then just filled in. Dig down at the edges and youll probably come to plastic