New Gardening Project for the House

[csberry]

We currently have 3 raised beds for JD's garden and she has plans for 3 more.

During the rain today I started pondering capturing rainwater for a garden reservoir. The beds are on the south side of our backyard. I've seen where people keep a barrel at the base of the gutter downspout, but need to see how large of a reservoir I could easily do and methods of distributing the water other than by dipping a bucket into the barrel. Would there be enough pressure in the barrel for some sort of irrigation hose to come out of the bottom?

*grrrrr*

Looks like some prime surfing fodder and a few trips to Home Depot and Bennett's Nursery.

Comments

[otopico.livejournal.com]

as long as the water level is higher than the beds, you should have enough pressure. more so if you are only using it for a drip system as they dont need a lot of pressure to work.