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Saving Money and Water Using Rain Barrels to Water Your Garden

Green is the new color. Today it's all about conserving energy and saving the earth for future generations, as it should be. One of the ways you can do your part is to get a rain barrel for watering your garden. Some local utility companies even sell them with a spigot and all the trimmings. If you live in a drought area this could be a possible solution to your watering problem.

Usually before a drought you will get weeks of heavy rain. This would be a good time to start setting up a rain barrel, or if you have a large garden area several rain barrels. Doing this will save you money on your water bill, as well as, doing your part to save the earth and become "green".

If you don't want to purchase a rain barrel you could make one yourself. Large plastic garbage cans make great rain barrels or you can hit Home Depot or Lowes and buy 55 gallon plastic drums. They are very large so if you do want to buy one make sure you have a large vehicle to transport them. You also will need a screen for the top to filter out any debris that might fall from your roof into the barrel.

Now you have to decide where to put your barrels. Probably you will want to place them under a corner of your house. Go outside when it rains and watch where the rain falls from your roof. You will see that it usually pours off from a corner and this would be the best place to put a barrel. But you can also place a barrel where ever you see large downpours off the roof. You also can install extra gutters and direct the gutter right into the rain barrel. This is the most efficient and quickest way to get water into your barrels.

If you find that one barrel fills up quickly, you might want to tandem them. This means when one barrel fills up you connect them by a tube so that the water flows into the empty barrel. If you have a large garden and you have a really good down pour you could connect a lot of rain barrels together and have your own conga line going with many barrels in a row. This way you'll always have available rainwater to use on your garden.

Using rain barrels is not a new idea but remember the saying, "everything old is new again"? Well that is definitely the case here. You need to look at it with fresh eyes and, I'm sure you can see the benefits of having one or more rain barrels to aid you in conserving water and saving money well watering your thriving garden.

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