My garden floods. I enclosed it with timber. How can I stop the flooding?

Question

Should I raise the bed and build it up. Should I get rid of the timber. What will help. All my seed got washed away.

Answer 1

make a faised bed using bricks and digg a trench  round the outside, fill with shingle to use for drainged

Answer 2

Dig a trench around it about 1 foot deep and just as wide. fill it with gravel old bricks or stones and cover it with a cloth material or even used carpet. cover that with dirt and your problem is solved. The water will go through the cloth material but the dirt wont wash through there by clogging up the drainage ditch. You may need to dig deeper but not wider you may even get away with 6 inch in width.

Answer 3

What I would do to get rid of the water in the garden is first make sure the soil is on a slant going away from the house and towards the front. Once done I would take a drill and get a drill bit a half an inch or so and drill through the timber at the bottom of your garden, you can drill as many holes as you want. This will allow the water to soak through the earth and drain out the bottom, and will prevent the flooding.

Answer 4

Leave the timbers, just fill the area inside them with more topsoil to raise the bed - add some compost and peatmoss to make it even happier.  The raised soil will also be easier to control the moisture level in - you do not want your plants to rot in boggy soil, eh?