Rainwater
From: samantha
another good frugal idea for gardening is to save
rain water to use on your garden. I was in the
market for a rain barrel so I called the local
recycling center and they gave me two! then all I
did was use some lengths of old water hose
attached to the bottom rim of the barrel to drain
the water out when I need it, and since I used
regular water hose, I can attach enough of my
other hoses to reach any point in my yard. I
recently found a few discarded cinder blocks and
set my water barrel on them to let gravity help
with draining the barrel. I have a 20 foot by 15
foot garden in hot, dry, west Texas, and my water
bill has stayed the same every season by using my
water reclamation system.
another good frugal idea for gardening is to save
rain water to use on your garden. I was in the
market for a rain barrel so I called the local
recycling center and they gave me two! then all I
did was use some lengths of old water hose
attached to the bottom rim of the barrel to drain
the water out when I need it, and since I used
regular water hose, I can attach enough of my
other hoses to reach any point in my yard. I
recently found a few discarded cinder blocks and
set my water barrel on them to let gravity help
with draining the barrel. I have a 20 foot by 15
foot garden in hot, dry, west Texas, and my water
bill has stayed the same every season by using my
water reclamation system.
posted by Tawra Jean at 4:58 PM
3 Comments:
even better is putting one barrel on 3 cement blocks, barrel #2 on 2 cement blocks, and barrel #3 on one cement block...and connecting pipes at the top of each barrel to the next one... putting your outlet hose on the lowest barrel or putting an outlet on each barrel....You would be surprized how much water you can collect when it rains...
just an idea....
do you ever have trouble with mosquitoes in a collecting barrel?
nope, every once in awhile I throw some lemon peel in there...seems o help...if I don't have lemons...I will put a cup of bleach in there..
after a few days the smell disappears and its fine to use, but no, I wouldn't drink it....I used it for washing dishes, taking showers, plus the garden, cause that was th only running water I had....
I also discovered if it hasn't rained in quite some time...and the one barrel has been sitting for some time...gotten leaves, dirt, bird poo probably, and how many bugs etc etc...I stir it all up...and it smells horrible...but its the best fertilizer around...I put it on a rose I thought was dead and that rose came to life, and just went nuts with blooms...and that rose had never had more the 1,2 blooms on it before....
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