Just to try and get the people involved and what can be done I am showing them what I do, and that is gardens with a raise bed and now I'm trying because I'm in a drought area, lowered beds. These are bed where you dig down about a foot and then you start your garden at that level dig down and you start the bed and you leave about let's say six inches for water catchment. With the raised beds, water just runs off but with the lowered beds the water should sit there and Beast and soak in hopefully without causing the root rot.

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