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Drainage chippings

  • 15-01-2013 3:38pm
    #1
    yes chance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 107 ✭✭


    What are drainage chippings. Woud they help where there is bad drainage in a garden by themselves or are they used with pipes?


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  • #2
    The Gardener
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 163 ✭✭The Gardener


    On a large scale we use them with drainage pipes, they stop the small holes in the pipes from blocking up with silt, the pipes channel the water away from the site that has to be drained. On their own they could be used in small problem areas using a herringbone system. In my own garden I've put in a soak hole using drainage chippings to take excess water from a small pond, the pipe from the pond feeds into the soak hole and I've left about nine inches of soil on top that doesn't get waterlogged.


  • #3
    ponddigger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 406 ✭✭ponddigger


    hi, any photos of your pond overflow. jack


  • #4
    The Gardener
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 163 ✭✭The Gardener


    ponddigger wrote: »
    hi, any photos of your pond overflow. jack
    No, but it's basically just a one inch diameter hose that is hidden under the ledge at the side of the pond at the maximum level that I want the pond at, it then goes down into the soak hole a few feet away, pretty basic and straightforward.


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