My neighbor threw out a length of old garden hose yesterday and I snatched it up. I put a hose mender thingy (what do you call those? I don't know...) on the cut end and affixed a sprinkler to it, screwed the other end onto my porch rain barrel: wa-lah! I can now reach to water all of my raised beds with my rain barrel water without filling a watering can! It's almost as good as real rain:
I had the hose mender -- probably $1.99. I also had the sprinkler in the garden shed -- it was an ancient one. The hose, free. The water, free. (Unless you count my initial investment of gutters and barrels...)
On my water spigot on the back of house I had 2 unbelievably long hoses adjoined and I could reach all the way to the alley with it - that's sort of crazy. I took one of them off, and attached it to one of the carport rain barrels. Now I can water the back half of my driveway mint, and several other plants with water from that barrel. I can now water all but the very back corner of my yard with rain water without toting a watering can. HAPPY.
Now I need some hose hangers to wrangle all those hoses...
Two friends/neighbors who were over last night, helping me brainstorm ideas for my backyard are making noises about getting rain barrels. That's a happy thought.
On my water spigot on the back of house I had 2 unbelievably long hoses adjoined and I could reach all the way to the alley with it - that's sort of crazy. I took one of them off, and attached it to one of the carport rain barrels. Now I can water the back half of my driveway mint, and several other plants with water from that barrel. I can now water all but the very back corner of my yard with rain water without toting a watering can. HAPPY.
Now I need some hose hangers to wrangle all those hoses...
Two friends/neighbors who were over last night, helping me brainstorm ideas for my backyard are making noises about getting rain barrels. That's a happy thought.
