E15 DIY Rain Gardens

So if this is your first podcast episode that you've stumbled across, a cool fact about me is that I was born in Scotland and I moved here with my family when I was five for my dad to follow a job opportunity.

Go, Dad.

He did great.

Although I grew up in the States, I'm very much still Scottish, and I miss it all the time.

It rains so much that the grass is always green, the flowers always bloom, and the air always smells like a rainstorm.

So this episode is a tribute to good old Caledonia.

Mm-hmm.

I bet they have a lot of rain gardens in the cities.

You should have asked your mom.

And we do, you know.

I think this really opened my eyes to a lot of things, like just like structures in general and how they utilize space and like walking areas and stuff like that and through like centers and like urban areas.

So, yeah, I thought it was really cool.

So I also am excited about this episode because our driveway always floods.

And when I was looking up solutions for it, I kept stumbling across rain gardens all the time because it is a really beneficial way to help drainage issues.

Um, Some are like, you know, from your roof, like if you get a lot of roof rain that piles into one section, rain garden, great solution.

There's just a lot of different ways.

And so I think it's really going to help us.

I'm

curious to see how it's going to help us because our driveway just has huge potholes in it that fill with lakes of water.

And you just splash it off to the side.

How is the

splashing it off to the side? Because I'm assuming that's what's going to be watering the garden.

That's not how it gets there, though.

Just you wait.

How does that help the potholes? Because it's not just getting splashed into it.