Sunday, January 15, 2012

Making A Rain Barrel

  With the cost of utility bills so high these days and needing a good water supply for your garden. Plus when my wife came to me and said that our water bill had almost doubled since the start of spring, I knew it was time to do something. So I looked into rain barrels. You can catch gallons of water for your plants and rain water is so much better for them. city water, city water has fluoride and chlorine in it. While city water won't kill the plants it does affect their growth. You will see much healthier and greener plants if you have away to save up rain water. You can buy them already made up or you can do like I did and make your own. You can use many different things to catch water in and as long as you place it at a bottom of a down spout and it doesn't leek, everything will work just fine.
  

  Here are my Rain Barrels completed! I made mine a little differently than in the information video I posted. The video is very informative and shows you step by step on how to build one. You can find these 55 gallon plastic drums at car washes, most of the time for free or very little. I have approx. 110 gallons of water and that goes along way. Make sure to drain it part way for the winter, so it will give the water room to expand and not bust the drum if it freezes. Well gook luck and have fun!





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John 4:11  The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?

11 comments:

  1. Well you inspire me to do things often just thought about. You also bring a message with each post which I love and need. Thanks
    Dolly

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    1. I just try to be obedient to my Savior. He and my family are my focus. I am very thankful for the wonderful comments, sometimes you never know if you are doing the right things! God Bless!

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  2. I have been wanting one of these for some time. Last year's drought hear in Texas liked to killed us - ha!! I am going to do this this year!

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  3. BTW - thanks for linknig up to uor blog hop. I'm your newest follower and would love for you to follow me back!

    Jen

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  4. Good idea! I will have to think about this. We have our own well so water is not a huge expense (just the electricity to pump it) nor does it have floride in it but still having the back up of extra water in a rain barrel would be good.

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    1. Hello, for you and others with the blessing of well water it would make much since. Unless you have a situation like we did on our farm, where the garden was away from any water source. then it may be of help!

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  5. Hi,
    The barrels from the carwash wouldn't be food grade would they? Thanks for the video.
    Trudy
    AndyTrudyW@aol.com

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    1. Its just soap and soap is great for the soil. Plus it is gone after a few fillings!

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  6. Love this! We've been talking about adding rain barrels to our homestead, so I appreciate the info. Thanks for dropping by my blog and leaving such encouraging comments, by the way. :) Such a wonderful community here in the blogging world! Blessings to you and yours, ~Lisa @ HappyinDoleValley

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    1. It is a vary good community in the blog world. I hav met lots of great people!

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  7. This is great , we are doing this this week for our chicken water because we have a shallow well wnd run out of water! Great video link:)
    Blessings~Ang

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