Before we built the house, we had gardens. Sans plumbing, we needed to water the garden and store water. We had two garden sheds on the property which served as our campground. We put gutters on the sheds which fed four separate 50 gallon water storage barrels. At any point, we would have 200 gallons of water to water the garden. Thank God for these barrels because this is how we water most of our garden on days like this - we still managed to harvest cucumbers, green beans, snap peas, tomatoes, zucchini and assorted herbs despite how dry it has been all week. We had to wait till end of day to start watering with the heat but there was plenty of water without tapping our well water. Love that.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
We Heart Our Water Storage Barrels
Before we built the house, we had gardens. Sans plumbing, we needed to water the garden and store water. We had two garden sheds on the property which served as our campground. We put gutters on the sheds which fed four separate 50 gallon water storage barrels. At any point, we would have 200 gallons of water to water the garden. Thank God for these barrels because this is how we water most of our garden on days like this - we still managed to harvest cucumbers, green beans, snap peas, tomatoes, zucchini and assorted herbs despite how dry it has been all week. We had to wait till end of day to start watering with the heat but there was plenty of water without tapping our well water. Love that.
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