The stormwater mitigation garden is filled to the brim with new soil thanks to our wonderful volunteers!
Next step is adding plants and finishing the placement of the ‘waterfall’ feature.
Koi pond? Hot tub? Nope, future stormwater mitigation garden!
We’ve been fielding a few questions about the excavation of the brick planters behind the Extension office. Nope, we aren’t building a koi pond back there!
This summer a very dedicated team of MG volunteers have been hard at work building a storm water mitigation garden. We’re partnering with the Long Tom Watershed Council on this project.
First step was to remove the aggressive weeds (St. John’s Wort and horsetail among others) and their roots. Volunteers sifted soil and removed roots-big and small. A percolation test was ran on the soil to see how well the remaining soil drained. Looks good! Right now, volunteers are repairing the brick walls and drilling seep holes. (A large tree root caused some damage to the west bed.) Next steps are to make repairs to the gutter/drainage system and then measure for soil!
Progress on Stormwater Mitigation garden
Thank you to Patty and all the Master Gardeners who came out on Thursday morning to remove hypericum from the beds. And in the heat!
Before shots of hypericum filled beds
All that hypericum was hiding a large stump! Get out the grinder!
Thank you, volunteers!!!