My Garden Is Flooded

[MyGardenIsFlooded]

Looking for some advice please, my garden keeps flooding We had some drainage put in during the summer, four channels put in (hope you can see them in the pic, the sections that look black) and the garden has been better but it's not coped with this crazy rain.

My neighbours don't seem to flood so not sure why ours is so bad.

Can anyone recommend what I need to fix the problem?

Thanks

Bumping for you as we have the same, albeit not as bad as you. Wondering if yours is bad as your garden appears to be on a slope OP?

A pump to channel it into your neighbours garden

Is there a steep slope upwards to the road? It's hard to tell from your photo.

Is that a road behind? If so is a drain blocked with leaves along that stretch?

Thank you Ah I see what you mean, probably not the best pic with the blinds in the way, I'll post another. That's basically a hill behind my fence so the water must run off that into my garden which won't help but strange the gardens either side are ok

We back onto school fields.

Can you plant a thirsty type of tree. Or build a raised area where it floods with rock/brick edging and plant water loving plants.

Is it a new build? Looks like there is run off from the playing fields

I think I would plant all along the fence

We are planning on a nice border with plants and trees but wanted the drainage problem sorted so we didn't get it all nice and have to wreck it again ☹️ maybe I should give it a go?

Do your neighbours have planting and borders?

You don't have plastic grass do you? Nothing you've done to your house that will increase the water in that area? Anything your neighbours have done to reduce water soaking up on their sides?

I can see what you mean about the blind now .

It's about 7 years old now, we have been in for 4. One neighbour has fake grass and the other doesn't have anything other than grass. The neighbour with just grass gets some pooling of water but nothing like what we get.

I am assuming you have clay soil which is preventing the rain water from draining away.
I have a problem wih sitting water in front of my house, half my garden from under my sitting room window is flooded. We have dug down and it is all clay, to make matters worse we have no drain in the front for it to drain away.

My allotment used to flood.

I worked really hard on building up the soil quality organically.
Planting small fruit trees also.

Several compost heaps. And shed loads of wood chip over a number of years to raise not only height of garden but also number of worms. It was a really heavy clay soil to start off with.

Initially as someone has said raised beds which can be moved around. Preferably not the very heavy wooden ones.
This time of year, with bought in compost, quite feasible to grown and plant veg still.

Not too late to plant trees, or fruit trees.
Just plan carefully in case you want to change the lay out.

Local tree surgeons often deliver wood chip for free which wil lhelp to a certain extent for clay soil.

The snap together reconstituted plastic raised beds are on the expensive side, but the advantage is you can move them in the spring after autumn crops if you want to change the layout. Have a look at the organic gardening catalogue.

ideal time to buy bare rooted trees/shrubs.
plant in large containers (like those cement mixing containers) with the bottom cut out.

Hopefully a better pic, shows hill and a rather soggy squirrel and cow 😆

I wonder if all water from your 'fake grass' neighbour drains into your. Is there a weed barrier under rhe grass?

To be honest I have wondered that but it's flooding nearer the real grass neighbour who i peaked in earlier and theirs is fine. No weed barrier. Think it is clay soil. It's mostly drained away now it's stopped raining. Just really hoped the new drainage would work this year, in previous years it's been right up to the window 😱

Have you got a soak away (or shared one with neighbours)? We have this problem with heavy rain and the neighbours shared soak away had failed. We knew nothing about it when we bought the house.

Was the house built after the school grounds or vice versa?

It looks like the rain from the sports field runs down to your garden, plus what falls in your garden and the builders didn’t put in adequate drainage to cope with it.

The house was build after the school, I'm not sure what a soak away is? Thanks

A soakaway is so the water has somewhere to go if there's no route to a drain

ukdnwaterflow.co.uk/what-is-a-soakaway/

(That was just the first link I found with photo/diagram)