Rain Barrels for Christmas

I’m sorry that I had to resort to using the “C” word, but it got your attention, am I right?

Launch Gallery

I ’m sorry that I had to fall back to using the “ C ” word , but it got your attention , am I correct ?

approximate what ’s on my Christmas list besides garden hoses on steroids ? Yup – rainwater gun barrel ! I guess about asking for just one , but I really need two and it ca n’t ache to ask . Aside from compost bins – which I have in spades , I ca n’t remember of anything more useful for my garden next time of year than rainwater barrels .

If you have n’t had a chance to check one out , here ’s how they work . A cool , elephantine gun barrel ( they come in many sizes and colors ) are set up at the bottom of a down spout of your dwelling house . Some have screens at the water entranceway to keep the water a bit clean as it ’s captured from the cap ; some do n’t . In any case , the barrels have spigots attached near the bottom of the drum for soft access to your harvested water during the warm month .

piss from the sky is naturally soft and is mineral , chlorine , and chemical substance - gratuitous , which is excellent material for irrigate your landscape painting and garden . When rain water is n’t collected , it fall from the roof and becomes tempest water overflow … and why would we need to throw away this free , natural resource ?

Be certain to look around and equate the price and features of various rain barrels . Check your local ironware store , garden centre , as well as the bigger chains like Home Depot . Do n’t forget to surfboard the profits and flip through garden catalogue , too . If you ’re the handy sort orlivewith a handy variety ; you could evenconstruct your own ! Winter after winter I ’ve watched my fellow gardener spat their hand with pleasure at the arrival of their new rain gun barrel – this year is going to bemyyear

Fine Gardening urge Products

Chapin International 10509 Upside - Down Trigger Sprayer

all right Gardening receive a delegacy for token purchased through links on this site , including Amazon Associates and other affiliate advertizing programme .

draw Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden , Revised and Updated Second Edition : A Natural Approach to Pest Control

Gardena 3103 Combisystem 12 - in To 20 - Inch Adjustable Metal Fan Rake Head

Get our latest peak , how - to articles , and instructional telecasting get off to your inbox .

Signing you up …

Build a Rain Barrel

Rain Barrels: Rainwater Irrigation

California State Fair and Its Amazing Vegetable Garden

Rosemary Plants as Miniature Christmas Trees

bring together ok Gardening for a free engage unrecorded webinar sport Dr. Janna Beckerman , a renowned plant pathologist as well as prof emerita at Purdue University and the ornamentals technical manager …

When I spotted a special guts dollar cactus ( Astrophytum asterias ) at the Philadelphia Flower Show a few calendar month ago , I love I was in trouble . With a delightful coloring material design …

When we only prioritize plant life we want over plants our landscape painting needs , each time of year is filled with a never - ending list of chores : pruning , purloin , watering , treating , amending , and fertilizing , with …

Video

Touring an Eco-friendly, Shady Backyard Retreat

You must be careful when you enter the backyard of garden designer Jeff Epping — not because you ’re likely to trip on something , but because you might be dive - flunk by a pair …