Crater created by rain pouring off branch
endpaper
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Hello
I have a tiny veg plot in a shared garden. It's a raised bed only a metre in diameter and there's agreement between me and a neighbour that it should occupy the space it does.
However, an overhanging branch, which I can't do anything about, is causing the heavy rain to pour with force onto my plot and this is creating a crater in the soil.
If I had more space, I wouldn't mind as it's only about the size of a bowling ball, but as it is, this knocks out a relatively high proportion of my total growing space!
I've been dreaming up ever more ludicrous ideas for re-directing or scattering this water, but thought others may have seen and tackled similar problems before. So:
1. What, if anything, could I do to divert or break up the water before it hits the ground?
2. Are there any stout-hearted veg that could withstand this battering? and actually, will having some roots holding the soil together help solve the problem?
thanks for any ideas!
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i would attach a piece of guttering to the underside of the branch where the water is falling and point it way from your bed, using a corner piece if necessary and then another piece of guttering maybe into a water butt if you have room or just a bucket maybe.
Would a see through plastic umbrella be any good. Like the one our Queen uses. You could lengthen the handle if necessary
Hi Endpaper
have you a picture of the scene you can post coz I am sure one of the crew will be able to assist in your puddle dilema
quicker the better so we can help
let's hope for happy gardening coz I have not been beaten yet
Place a pot filled with gravel or pea shingle directly where the water falls?
Oh wow, lots of most excellent responses - i didn't see some them till just now as for some reason only got notified of the first few. Sorry only getting back now to everyone as i also got slightly overwhelmed by some other stuff that came up unexpectedly -- but a few days ago, based on a combimation your suggestions, I went outside armed with a plastic bottle intent on making a kind of ad hoc shadoof-drain. It was one of the few days lately when it hasn't been tipping down -- and what did I see? The crater was there again, but this time I could see that all my radish and carrot seedlings just behind it were covered with loose earth with a distinctive directional scatter pattern: not a rain crater at all - SQUIRREL!
So in an abrupt change of plans I filled that area with of brick and then bought some metal mesh!
Thus far that's done the trick. And i even managed resuscitate lots of my poor buried seedlings.
Thanks again for all the imaginative solutions!