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Water Butts Revisited
gavin:
Got me thinking, this one. I don't have a shed - can't have one (six on the site burnt down, in two years).
So how about a really daft idea? Do you use plastic sheet to control/kill weeds? Let it also harvest winter rain water into a sunken barrel? You'd have to lift the rainwater into however many above-ground-barrels you'd need (could be VERY cold and unpleasant in winter? Hmmmm!).
It'd work for me - a length of plastic the length of a path, and up the sides of the raised beds would be like a gutter. I'd have weed control on the path, but rain still falls on the beds. ;D
I'm almost tempted to try it! I've got it all mapped out - a couple of gentle slopes to use; a bit of ground ideally placed to take the sunken barrel; three or four spots for convenient above-ground barrels (could even link them with hose, I think, so I only fill one - and the water levels out across the network). ;D
It's (almost!!!!) a pity that we have water taps AND can use hoses. :) Just as well I'm lazy. :-[
All best - Gavin
Hugh_Jones:
Much simpler Gavin. You simply dig a hole 6ft x 4ft and 1ft or more deep and line it with your plastic sheet. 12 inches of rainfall would provide 12 inches of water - 24 cu. ft, or 150 gallons in total, as much as 2 or 3 butts - as well as a permanent supply of frogs to deal with your slugs
Mrs Ava:
That would be a pond then ;D
mysticmog:
Or a network of ponds - I can see this turning into an entire irrigation system.....unfortunately I would have to go back to the whole concept of coverage - aren't water butts supposed to be covered over - wouldnt you end up with yicky water full of green algae and other such plantlife?
Maybe could have a sunken butt/pond with a lid? Anyone got any ideas on how I might do this?
I could always just look for the water tap that is supposedly hidden somewhere on the allotments....
Doris_Pinks:
Water diviners required for Christmas Mysticmog?? ;D may fine the water supply then! Dottie P.
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