What Should You Plant Over the Septic System?

Landscape designer Wynn Nielsen shares her top tips for drainfield ground cover and the “badass’’ list of plants homeowners should avoid at all costs.
What Should You Plant Over the Septic System?
Shown here are creeping phlox, dwarf boxwood, hebe, thyme and iris, which would be considered safe to plant over the septic field.

Making your daily pumping rounds, you’ve witnessed the myriad of ways homeowners sabotage their septic systems through poor landscaping or other uninformed land-use choices. When the driveway is crowded, they park cars over the septic system. They construct a wooden deck over the...

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