Installed 150’ of french drain around the vegetable garden and stone path to prevent the annual washing away of all the mulch / flooding with the spring rain. Huge effort.
Notes:
- Rented a trencher for $300. Got 1.5 hours of somewhat useful work out of it and 5 hours of trying to get it started and keep it running. Ended up getting stuck all the way in the back and had to use all our strength to get it back to the trailer and the come-along to load it in. At least home depot gave a refund.
- Biggest problem is the trencher didn’t even make the hold wide enough for the pipe, so manually had to widen it (and cut through all the roots).
- 150’ long. Roughly 12-16” deep. >1”/8’ pitch.
- Laid geo-textile, then 4” corrugated pipe, then back-filled with 1.5” round stone.
- Took the opportunity to redo the stone path and the garden, laying ~1100 sqft of landscape fabric to tip the scales in my battle against weeds.
- Material list:
- 2x100’ pipe.
- 1100 sqft landscape fabric.
- 10 yards of mulch.
- 1.75 yards of 1.5” stone.
- 1 yard of limestone screening (for new foundation for stone path)
- Various drain fittings
- 8’x100’ geo-textile.
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