The article below describe you with informations for homeowners about how to build a small but beauty and of course 
inexpensive rain garden. This could be a manual use for the diy home owners since it contained information needed to design and build rain gardens on residential lots.
Sections such Sizing and Siting the rain garden, Building the Rain Garden, and Planting and Maintaining the Rain Garden, are described well and easy to understand including pictures to illustrate the descriptions. Also, there are rain garden and plant lists section for several landscape condition such clay soils and full sun (click to enlarge image), rain garden for loam to sandy/loam soils and full sun, and for sandy soils and full sun.
Accordingly you’ll need the following tools : tape measure, shovels, rakes, trowels, carpenter’s level, wood stakes at least 2 ft long, string, 2×4 board at least 6 ft long (optional), and small backhoe with caterpillar treads (optional). See more complete about Making Small, Beauty, and an Inexpensive Rain Garden in this diy homeowner article (source: clean-water.uwex.edu)
Home gardeners that want to design, install and maintain a rain garden can find easy-to use information with lovely illustrations and photos in Rain Gardening in the South: Ecologically Designed Gardens for Drought, Deluge & Everything in Between, by Helen Kraus & Anne Spafford, available at bookstores and http://www.enopublishers.org. Rain gardens maximize use of harvested water and filter impurities from storm water before that water reaches rivers and lakes. Be a DYI gardener and good steward of the environment.
October 26, 2009 @ 5:20 AM