Rain barrels and their early cousins have been around for 4,000 years, but they’re becoming a “new idea” as people try to conserve water and be more enviro-friendly. They make sense in a lot of ways. See why and get details on where to buy barrels or how to make your own.
One of the latest trends that both adds beauty to landscapes and solves flooding and runoff problems is a rain garden. These are gardens built in slight depressions and planted with wet-soil-tolerant plants that are intentionally planned to keep rainwater on site instead of going into the storm-sewer systems (or the neighbor’s basement below you). Here’s a story on one built at West Hanover Twp.’s Fairville Park.
Lawns aren’t the low-care vegetation they’re usually cracked up to be, and aren’t terribly environmentally friendly or helpful to wildlife either. There are ways to reduce the lawn without spending a fortune or creating a ton of new work. Here’s what one gardener did…
