Rain Garden Workdays

Capen Park Rain Garden (left half)

On every Wednesday through out the month of June we held a rain garden workday. These workdays, held at local rain garden sites in Columbia, consisted of us and the volunteers weeding, planting, and mulching. Here is a little bit more about what we did in detail:

Capen Park
The work done here was weeding, planting, and cardboard mulching (which is laying down cardboard covering it up with mulch). This rain garden was completed on June 24, 2009.

Bethel Park
Bethel Park is still a work in progress due to it having a bad erosion problem that has slowed us down, so technically it is only half done. On our workday we had the volunteers do some weeding and planting, then a crew from JobPoint joined us and removed almost all of the cattails that were in the pond... in about an hour and half!!! Katrina, Lea, and I had tried removing some cattails last fall from this same pond, but were not as succesful.

Rock Bridge High School
This is an existing rain garden that was put in several years ago. We have been working with Glenn Picket to combat the clover and other weeds, as well as add some new plants and mulch. KOMU actually came out and did a little news spot on us while we were out there that day. Although that workday didn't last long, as it was about 95 degrees and humid that day.

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