"Floating food forest" called Swale docks in the Bronx 02:53. NEW YORK -- As 18-year-old Naseem Haamid rounded a busy Bronx street corner, the scenery changed from honking horns, screeching tires ...

The roots from those trees have destroyed the concrete swale, lifting, breaking and crumbling sections, which are now falling into a public creek. I've had an estimate of $12,000 to repair the damage.

The sides of the swale are graduated and create "shelves" for plants with different drainage needs. 7. Remove the dug-out dirt to other areas of the garden or create a berm.

This wasn’t your typical barge, either. It’s an art project called Swale, which was created last year by artist Mary Mattingly as a way to grow produce in a public space.So it was a kind of ...

Dear Carol: We have a swale which runs in a long arc through the backyards of all of the houses in this development. Grass covers it and in the spring or during rainy weather it fills with water ...

Making a yard and a community more beautiful begins at the curb. But that narrow space between sidewalk and street — sometimes called a swale, median, hellstrip, parkway, verge or tree belt ...

South Lake Union’s ‘swale on Yale' is getting set to grow. The stormwater system will treat over 190 million gallons of runoff a year when it’s completed in 2018.