1,040 Rain Gardens

WHO Radio and listeners will build one thousand forty rain gardens in an effort to green things up around here!

A rain garden is simple to build and maintain, will fit into any yard, economical to plant and an ideal way to conserve water resources. They include select plant varieties that have a cleansing effect on ground water, so we're making it our mission to encourage the planting of one thousand forty of them, which can make a quantifiable difference in the environment. Greening up Iowa and cleaning up the water; that's the mission and we won't stop until we've reached 1,040 of them!

Build one or build two WHO Radio Rain Gardens -- then tell us all about it! Learn all about rain gardens, get instructions and links to horticultural experts.

Resources

The Rain Garden Project from the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship.

The "Rain Gardens: Filtering and Recycling Rainwater" publication from Iowa State University (PDF).

Here are the plants Bob Quinn put in his Rain Garden: