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Capacity, capacity, must have more capacity!!
11 August 2007This month has been a very dry month. We have have had lots of blue sky which has been great for just sitting in our yard but not so good for our gardens. If we hadn’t installed our 3 rain barrels we would have been using the hose long ago. But now as the summer wears on we are finding that the water level in our rain barrels has begun to dwindle and we are beginning to wonder…what are we going to do when we run out of rain water? Should we start to use the hose to make sure that our “crops” survive?
Well the answer is simple really, we need more capacity!!
We have been building rain barrels for a few people around town but not until now did it occur to me that maybe I need to build a couple more for ourselves. It seems that we go through about 100 gallons of water a week for just the veggie garden. This does not include any shrubs or other decorative type plants and certainly not the lawn. This actually surprised me a bit as we only have 64 square feet to cover.
So I guess I know what I need to do before the next rain, get a couple more barrels hooked up to the overflows of our existing barrels.
