How to protect crops from the spring flood

A rich harvest from your garden is a matter of great joy and pride for any owner, but at the same time, it is a "headache" - how to preserve this harvest. It would seem that the answer is quite simple - the cellar was invented many centuries ago, but even here a problem arises for lovers of suburban life.

Old cellars, cellars or underground floors were not equipped with proper waterproofing, therefore, often in April-May, the crop was flooded with groundwater.

How to protect vegetables and jars from the spring flood? A few tips, not from the Internet, but from life - I made a cellar with my own hands in 2 years:

Ÿ If you are going to build a cellar, the issue of waterproofing must be solved before the start of all work, at the planning stage.

Ÿ Decide on the method of waterproofing - external or internal, the final price of construction depends to a greater extent on this.

Ÿ Decide on the methods of waterproofing. Unknowingly, I ended up using both well-known ones - the old-fashioned way and using modern technologies.

Ÿ It is imperative to analyze what soils in your area, where groundwater passes, what the depth of freezing and how much the selected area for an underground structure will be flooded in the spring.

In my case, the cellar came out with all known types of waterproofing.

Initially, the idea was as follows: to dig a foundation pit, build a reinforced concrete box in it (a reinforced wall of concrete and rubble stone 50 cm thick) and make outside there is a clay castle 40 cm wide (an old way), and again, outside, glue the walls with expensive and high-quality waterproofing (not cheap roofing material!) - a tribute nanotechnology.

As a result, with torrential summer rains, water seeped through the wall and flooded the room (the water level on the floor is 7-10 cm).

The next step was internal waterproofing - already inside the room, a layer was laid on the walls structural plaster, 1 cm thick, and the floors were treated with a special compound for waterproofing concrete (Penetron).

While the cellar is dry, the rains are not so heavy this year, so we are waiting for the spring flood and hope for dry floors!