Any gardener who has experienced flooding knows that it can do a lot of damage to a garden, leaving our lush green paradise muddy and smelly and us heartbroken. This book will guide you through restoring your garden. A few simple strategies implimented in the clean up phase can help save plants. There are other strategies which will help save your soil health. These are simple and easy to do and make a big difference if you do them soon after flooding has receded. If this is not possible, do not despair, this book will guide you through soil and garden restoration even if you cannot begin on it for many months after the flood.
This book covers many aspects of restoring a flooded garden from the clean up, possible contamination, soil damage and how to fix it, what to do with flooded garden tools, caring fro trees that flooded, edible gardens, community gardens, volunteering and then how to replant your garden to make it more resilient for future weather events.