One of the reasons we built the rock planters was to help divert water away from the foundation of the house. Now that we have the planters done, we needed to consider drainage from them as well. If you don’t provide sufficient drainage from your planters they will slowly fill with water and never drain, rotting all of the roots to the plants you have in there…the soil on top will look perfect, but everything a couple inches down is drowning.

Jerry and I drilled holes before we made the rock wall and placed 1” PVC pipe in them to help evacuate any standing water that may build up in there. The next step, before we add topsoil was to add about a foot of rocks to help the water drain to the bottom and out the sides.

I ordered two yards of rock ($80) and had it delivered to the house yesterday. I had to run downtown really quick, by the time I got back the truck was in our front yard (no where near the walls) with the back of the truck up ready to dump all the rock….I honked my horn, he stopped and we dropped the rock half and half in front of both of the walls.

The temperature outside while we were shoveling these rocks was 90 degrees with a heat index of 105 degrees. Boy…it will be nice when Summer and I sitting on the front porch with Ice Tea next Summer…



At the end of the day, we had a pretty nice sunset with the moon showing off our back yard. It isn’t anything spectacular, but it’s pretty nice.

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