Give nature a home

HOMES & CONSTRUCTIONS

Many homeowners have paved their compounds. This they do to get rid of dust and mud and to create parking space for their cars.  However, a concreted compound poses a risk to the drainage system.

With the heavy rains these days, water runs off and worsens the already poor drainage system because there is no soil to absorb it.

If a homeowner has a patch of lawn, water from the downpour will be able to soak in the ground and perhaps reduce the possibility of floods.

Even then, the soaked water in the ground bounces back into the air and creates favourable temperature.

Grass provides a blanket for the soil although it also gets muddy and soggy when it rains heavily. To prevent this, a compound designer can make a compound slope gently to make it easy for the water to flow off the lawn.

But if you have a big chunk of land that can accommodate a simple garden, then the garden has to be placed slightly lower than the surface of the compound. This way, water that would have stagnated in the compound runs into the garden.

Agnes Nakalega, whose compound has partial paving and a lawn, believes a garden, paving and lawn make a home beautiful.

She, however, says mowing the compound is a pre-requisite of maintaining its beauty. You can mow the lawn taking into account the weather changes.