Keep Your Landscape Dry: Drainage Solutions for Your Patios, Walkways, and Garden Beds

Are you considering extending your patio or building a new one in your backyard? Maybe you desire a new landscape designed with walkways, entertainment areas and other outdoor destination spaces within your landscape.

Perhaps you’ve dreamt about adding garden beds for growing nutritious fresh vegetables and fruit to enjoy harvesting and eating.

Before you embark on any landscaping project, you must conduct a thorough site inspection and analysis to understand the lay of the land to identify how water flows. It is critical to be aware of potential drainage issues on your property.

Expertly diagnosing and determining a customized landscape drainage solution for your property will eliminate and prevent water damage on your property so you can ensure an enjoyable outdoor space with a dry and pleasant environment for your patios, walkways, hardscaped areas and garden beds.

In this blog post, you will learn more about drainage solutions, such as:

Why properly installed drainage is fundamental for patios, hardscaped areas and around your house

Why walkways need appropriate drainage

Why efficient drainage will remove excess water from your yard and garden beds.

Why Properly installed Drainage is Fundamental for Patios, Hardscaped Areas and Around Your House

Patios and hardscaped areas are a significant investment. You do not want your new landscape features to fail because of poor drainage that may result in the patio and hardscaped area sinking or in water puddling on the surface. You want your patio builders to expertly determine and install the best professional drainage solution for your land before they build your new patio and hardscaped areas.

Addressing the area around your house and finding a solution for directing the water running off your house and into the ground is especially important. The solution will vary, based on your situation, and may include the installation of downspout extensions, in-ground channels, catch basins, trench drains, perimeter, or sub-surface drains for directing water away from the house. A professionally designed and installed drainage solution will be unique to your property and will result in a secure and dry outdoor environment that provides you with years of enjoyment.

Fun fact: The ancient Romans used permeable pavers to build roads.

Why Walkways Need Proper Drainage

Walkways connect you to various parts of your outdoor rooms and gardens back to a focal point. They need proper drainage before construction so water can drain away rather than pond on them.

Poor drainage also leads to erosion during heavy downpours. This excess water can flood surrounding lawn and garden beds and may seep into the foundation of your home. You do not want any walkway or landscaping to have puddling, be underwater, or be subject to erosion and sinking.

Invest in drainage solutions before building a walkway. At Campbell & Ferrara, we’re experts in providing custom drainage solutions.

After the analysis of your land, and before building your walkway, we will determine the best solution and can:

Correct the pitch of the land, properly grade any slopes and add swales

Install a French drain under your landscaping to move water away from your yard

Build a dry creek bed and add a walkway that connects you from your patio to your new riverbed

Use permeable pavers so water can drain directly into the ground

Use gravel or crushed stone, allowing water to percolate into the ground rather than pooling on the walkways.

Fun Fact: 4,000 years ago, Corinth, an ancient Greek city, had sidewalks.

Learn more: Elevate Your Garden: Designing with Raised Garden Beds

Why Good Drainage Matters for Your Garden Beds

If you plan to add garden beds to your landscape, you do not want them to hold water and become swamps following every downpour. Poor drainage in your landscape, edible gardens or beautiful garden beds can lead to more plant diseases, dead plants and provide a breeding ground for mosquitoes.

At Campbell & Ferrara, our drainage experts will always examine, analyze, and diagnose the water flow and drainage on your land and provide a solution that ensures water drains from your land properly. Your drainage solution may include a combination of techniques to ensure the most efficiency.

We also recommend that you consider:

Raised garden beds that protect your edibles from soggy ground

Add soil amendments to help the soil become loamier and absorb rainwater better.

Fun fact: The Chinese invented raised garden beds thousands of years ago.

Trust Campbell & Ferrara to Solve Your Drainage Problems

Are you looking for a customer-oriented landscaping company that provides site analysis, design, and installation services? Then you need Campbell & Ferrara. We are experts in drainage solutions, and our patio builders and skilled craftsmen use hardscape elements such as outdoor walkways, steps, and garden beds to design and create your custom outdoor landscape solutions.

Call us today for your landscape consultation at 703-354-6724 or fill out our contact form.

Sources:

AgwayCapeCod.com, Raised Garden Beds.

UnitPaving.com, A Beginner’s Guide to Hardscaping: Permeable Pavers.

En.Wikipedia.org, Sidewalk.