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October 23, 2009

Rain garden: the shopping list

Chesapeake Rainscaping I love projects that involve shopping!

This time, however, Jack Dawson of Chesapeake Rainscaping did the shopping.

The list of supplies to build the rain garden included: a roll of filter fabric (of which we will use only a small part); 5 bags of gravel for the reservoir; 3 bags of compost to mix with the very clay-like soil and improve drainage; four bags of river run stone for aesthetics and erosion control; flagstone for the low wall; flex pipe to collect and direct the rainwater from the downspout, and four bags of shredded hardwood mulch.

Total cost? About $260.

Photo credit: Baltimore Sun/Susan Reimer

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About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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