In garden beds, gravel helps water flow away from the roots of your plants. In French drains, gravel enables ... the water will have to fill the trench to the top of the pipe before it's carried ...

French drain systems are a simple and aesthetically pleasing way to redirect water away from your home’s foundation to ...

Decades before geo-textile fabrics were invented, builders placed one foot of dry straw on top of the coarse gravel ... sock on a drain tile pipe next to a footing or in a linear french drain?