Many hobby gardeners are afraid that the costs for irrigation over the neck grow. Why do not you just take rainwater?
No one can predict how the weather will turn out in the summer. Sometimes it rains like buckets, then another dry period follows. The fact is, your garden needs even watering. Long dry times like neither the vegetable garden nor the lawn. But there are two ways to irrigate your garden with little effort and almost free of charge. The magic word is catching rainwater and dosing skillfully.
Pouring with expensive tap water will be history if you use the rainwater you already have. Collect the rainwater with appropriate containers (rain barrel), a purchase that will pay off quickly. For your plants, this water is much healthier anyway, as it is not calcareous. In addition, the water is returned to the natural cycle.
Collect rainwater in the rain barrel
The simplest and most common form of rainwater collection is the rain barrel. Nowadays, a tonne does not have to be big and ugly and make an ugly picture in the garden. There are now rain barrels in various shapes and colors, so you can skilfully fit into the garden picture.
Since the rain barrel is in most cases directly under the gutter, the size is always a bit dependent on the roof area. If this is bigger, then you must also use a correspondingly large container. Rain barrels, which can not catch all rainwater, are pure waste, because the excess water flows next to it and occasionally even causes waterlogging.
Collect rainwater in the (underground) water tank
Another way to catch and use the rainwater in the garden is to put up a water tank. These "colossi" often hold several thousand liters, so they are really only recommended for large gardens.
My tip: sink the water tank in the ground and direct the rainwater from the roof of the house.
If two garden plots are close together, it can be worthwhile to enter into a deal with the neighbor. The initial cost of the water tank will be shared, as well as the collected rainwater. The practicality of water tanks are the integrated pumps and devices that saves one from dragging the annoying watering cans.
But also cisterns or water tanks without integrated pump can easily be retrofitted with an external rainwater pump.
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