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Snow in April/ Raingarden Full

Drainage Channel


Its another cold, snowy day here in the Convergence Zone, and checking the garden I see that the drainage system from rooftop down gutters, downspouts, thru rain garden and to the vegetable patch is working fine. Spinach is sprouting little green shoots, and one spinach plant now with baby leaves is getting ready to grow (of the seeds planted last fall, just this one survived the winter).

Pictures here of drainage and some more plantings. I'm using the garden now as a place for plants like the heuchera I got on sale to grow for a bit. They were from last fall, overgrown, sitting in a corner of the nursery greenhouse. Soon I'll divide them and they will be like new.
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