Greetings and welcome to my channel, ten months ago I made a video "How I Built a French Drain to Improve Drainage on Clay Soil", this video explains 6 steps I came up with for building a french drain to improve drainage over suburban clay soil.
In this update video, I'll be answering some frequently asked questions from my french drain video and reviewing it's performance over the past year.
Here in Austin Texas, new suburbs have dense clay soil brought in for building home foundations. In most cases, developers plan for drainage, but in my case, there are some ongoing drainage issues. I've built this french drain to get rid of standing water in my backyard, and to remedy root rot issues for my backyard orchard's peach trees.
Improving the clay soil was an option here, and I've taken some steps to improve the soil with pearlite, aeration, and compost. That being said, one year later, the drain still works as designed.
Video Chapter Timestamps -
0:00 Chapter 1 - Intro and Recap
1:27 Chapter 2 - Peach Tree Update
3:00 Chapter 3 - Birds Eye View of Drainage Issues
4:26 Chapter 4 - French Drain Anatomy Revisited
6:23 Chapter 5 - Why the French Drain Doesn't Go To the Street
9:30 Chapter 6 - Closing Thoughts
Thanks again for watching Austin Texas Gardening!
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7 апр 2023